Edgewater, CO 80266 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Edgewater, CO, ZIP 80266
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 165 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Edgewater in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Edgewater has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Edgewater's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Edgewater compares
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Edgewater places 30,546 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 44 of 624.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewater's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgewater can differ from the 80266 normal.