Kit Carson, CO 80862 Frost Dates
Kit Carson, CO: when does the frost end?
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kit Carson in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Kit Carson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Kit Carson's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kit Carson against the rest of the dataset
Kit Carson's growing season runs about 151 days, ranking 35,174 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CO, it ranks 321 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 80862's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Kit Carson's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Kit Carson can differ from the 80862 normal.