Padroni, Colorado, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Padroni, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Padroni lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Padroni — the short answer
Padroni, Colorado: USDA zone 5b, about 170 days between hard freezes, across 519 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~170
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 519 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 5b is Padroni's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Padroni's 170-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Padroni
Each reading below is measured for Padroni itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPadroni runs about 170 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPadroni sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Padroni is in
Padroni sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Padroni's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in Padroni
Every plant below cleared Padroni's own zone 5b and its 170-day season. Each card opens that plant's Colorado profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Padroni?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Padroni
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Padroni. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Stanley KoesterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Logan County Road & Bridge - Padroni ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Logan County Road & Bridge DeptUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- UNOCAL PIPELINE CO - STERLINGBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- A. MITCHEK CATTLE CO. #3 FDLTCAFO · 2.9 mi
- BRANDON AND CHEYENNE MCENDAFFERCAFO · 3.7 mi
- SB00905131BBBNitrate · 5.5 mi
- SB00905130DAA NAWQA 19Nitrate · 5.8 mi
- Gerk GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- Zinks GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- BORNHOFT FEEDYARDCAFO · 6.0 mi
- SB00805201CCD NAWQA 18Nitrate · 6.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Padroni's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Padroni.
Total Sites
37
within ~10 miles of Padroni
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Padroni
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Padroni
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Padroni, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Padroni — CAFO (6 sites) and Nitrate (12 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Padroni
Everything above resolves to Padroni as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 519 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Padroni Average
Padroni Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Padroni
- ●One soil character for all of Padroni
- ●Frost dates read at Padroni's scale: Apr 27 to Oct 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Padroni's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Padroni
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Three things about your lot that Padroni averages can't show:
We read public map data around Padroni — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Padroni average
How we know this about Padroni
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Padroni’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Padroni
When does frost risk typically end in Padroni?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Padroni typically lands around Apr 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 18.
When is the first frost in Padroni?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Padroni typically arrives around Oct 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 30, so the watching starts about Sep 14 — about 170 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Padroni?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Padroni sees about 170 frost-free days — roughly Apr 27 through Oct 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 18 to Sep 30, about 135 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Padroni?
The federal record around Padroni shows 37 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (13), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Padroni?
From about Sep 14 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Padroni's scale — its 5b band and its 170-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Padroni's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Padroni’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Padroni's own scale — its own ~170-day season between 28°F freezes, the 519 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Padroni's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Padroni's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 27 and Oct 14 and the ~170-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Padroni, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Padroni's boundary and the 519 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~170-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Padroni's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Padroni's 519 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan County
- The growing challenges every Colorado grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Colorado
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Padroni's 519 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Padroni you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 519 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Padroni-wide figureread your own land →
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