Cherry Hills Village, CO 80121 Frost Dates
80121, near Cherry Hills Village, CO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Cherry Hills Village sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cherry Hills Village's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cherry Hills Village against the rest of the dataset
Cherry Hills Village's growing season runs about 160 days, ranking 32,290 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CO, it ranks 101 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 80121: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Cherry Hills Village's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cherry Hills Village's dates instead of trusting one.