Pagedale, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Pagedale, 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 Pagedale lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pagedale — the short answer
Pagedale, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 771 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 771 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 7a is Pagedale's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pagedale's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pagedale
Each reading below is measured for Pagedale itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPagedale runs about 241 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPagedale sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Pagedale is in
Pagedale sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pagedale's own centroid rather than borrowed from St. Louis County.
What Grows in Pagedale
Every plant below cleared Pagedale's own zone 7a and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pagedale?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Pagedale
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pagedale checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 240 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pagedale
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pagedale. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ST LOUIS MUSIC SUPPLY COBrownfields · 75 ft
- CITY OF PAGEDALEUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- ELPACO COATINGS CORPBrownfields · 1500 ft
- ELPACO COATINGS CORPToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- TRITECH COATING CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- UNILEVER HPC USA ST LOUIS PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1600 ft
- SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PHILLIPS KWIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- TERMINAL RAILROAD ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- RHYMES AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- TRANS LEASE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SHELL OIL CO - STATION SOLDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pagedale'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 Pagedale.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pagedale
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pagedale
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pagedale, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pagedale — Superfund (80 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (372 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Pagedale
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pagedale average
Your land is one point inside Pagedale
Everything above resolves to Pagedale as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 771 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 city 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 Pagedale Average
Pagedale Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Pagedale
- ●One soil character for all of Pagedale
- ●Frost dates read at Pagedale's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pagedale's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pagedale
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pagedale, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pagedale averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pagedale — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pagedale average
How we know this about Pagedale
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Pagedale’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Pagedale
When does frost risk typically end in Pagedale?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pagedale typically lands around Mar 21, 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 Apr 11.
When is the first frost in Pagedale?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pagedale typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pagedale?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pagedale sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 3, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pagedale?
The federal record around Pagedale runs heavier than most — 4,704 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,867), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pagedale?
From about Oct 18 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 Nov 17 (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 Nov 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pagedale's scale — its 7a band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pagedale'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 Pagedale’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pagedale's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 771 acres it covers and 4,704 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pagedale's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pagedale's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 17 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 4,704 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pagedale, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pagedale's boundary and the 771 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pagedale's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pagedale checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pagedale's 771 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom St. Louis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom St. Louis County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom St. Louis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pagedale's 771 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pagedale you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 771 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Pagedale-wide figureread your own land →
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