Edgewater, CO 80214 Frost Dates
80214, near Edgewater, CO: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Edgewater 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
Edgewater'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.
The actual range around Edgewater's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edgewater against the rest of the dataset
Edgewater's growing season runs about 165 days, ranking 30,543 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CO, it ranks 41 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 80214: local microclimates, on what one yard in Edgewater can differ from the 80214 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Edgewater's frost date answer different questions.