Changelog

Locals know the town gets slammed in the October-to-April snowbird months and on the marathon and Senior Games weekends. Pick a day to see how busy town usually is — and the calmest day to go instead. It's the usual pattern, not a live count.

A new page reads the air over St. George — fine particles, blown desert dust, and in the hot months, ground-level ozone — and says in plain language whether today is a good day to be outside. It updates through the day from a public forecast model, with the Utah Division of Air Quality's Washington County page as the official reading. Useful on windy dust days along I-15 and when wildfire smoke drifts in over the summer.

St. George now has a simple water-use calculator. Type how many people live in your home and how much lawn you water, and it estimates your use in gallons per person a day — the number the water district measures the whole county by — and shows it against the county average and the 2030 conservation goal. It also breaks your use into indoors, lawn and pool, so you can see what moves the number most. It's an estimate from typical figures, not your bill, and it links straight to the lawn-rebate tool if you want to act on it.

Type in how much grass you have to see what the water district's rebate would pay and how much water you'd save, plus how often you should water this month and the summer watering hours.

St. George is live. It opens with two tools: When Can I Be Outside?, which reads the desert heat hour by hour so the workable morning and evening windows are easy to find, and Events This Week, which keeps the area's big races, the Tuacahn season, and the rodeo in one place. More to come — bin-collection by address and a SunTran transit view are the next likely additions.

St. George packs an outsized events calendar into the year, and several weekends fill roads, restaurants, and lodging. This new board gathers the verified annual fixtures in one place: the Tuacahn Amphitheatre summer season in Ivins, the Dixie Round-Up Rodeo in September, the St. George Marathon (50th running, October 3), and the Huntsman World Senior Games in October. Each entry links the page it was checked on; dated events drop off once they pass.

St. George summers are genuinely dangerous — July 2024 averaged a 107.9°F high and the record is 117°F. This new tool reads the hour-by-hour heat on the National Weather Service scale and shows when it is easier or harder to be outside, with the cool morning and evening windows the city's runners, crews, and golfers already work around. It links the official NWS forecast and CDC heat-safety guidance.