Page, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Page, 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 Page lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Page — the short answer
Page, Nebraska: USDA zone 5b, about 180 days between hard freezes, across 156 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~180
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 156 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 Page's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Page's 180-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Page
Each reading below is measured for Page itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPage runs about 180 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
MeasuredPage 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 Page is in
Page sits in the Northwestern Glaciated Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Page's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Holt County is mostly Nebraska Sand Hills. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Page
Every plant below cleared Page's own zone 5b and its 180-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Page?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Page
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Page. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FARMERS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- 29N 10W36DCCA1Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- 28N 9W 9BA 1Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- 29N 10W36CA 1Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 29N 10W36AB 1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- 29N 9W35CA 1Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- 29N 10W28DA 1Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- 28N 10W19CD 1Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- RONs MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- 28N 8W 6AB 1Nitrate · 7.0 mi
- 27N 11W 1DDAA1Nitrate · 7.3 mi
- 29N 8W33CC 1Nitrate · 8.2 mi
5 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Page'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 Page.
Total Sites
28
within ~10 miles of Page
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Page
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Page
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Page, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Page. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Page
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Page
Everything above resolves to Page as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 156 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 Page Average
Page Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Page
- ●One soil character for all of Page
- ●Frost dates read at Page's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Page's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Page
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Page, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Page — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Page average
How we know this about Page
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 Page’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 Page
When does frost risk typically end in Page?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Page typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Page?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Page typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 180 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Page?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Page sees about 180 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 3, about 145 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Page?
The federal record around Page is light — 28 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Page?
From about Sep 17 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 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 Oct 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Page's scale — its 5b band and its 180-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Page'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 Page’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Page's own scale — its own ~180-day season between 28°F freezes, the 156 acres it covers and 28 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Page's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Page's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 17 and the ~180-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 28 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Page, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Page's boundary and the 156 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~180-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Page sits in the Northwestern Glaciated Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Page's 156 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Holt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Holt County
- The growing challenges every Nebraska grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nebraska
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Holt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Page's 156 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Page you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 156 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Page-wide figureread your own land →
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