Campo, CO 81029 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Campo, CO, ZIP 81029
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 166 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Campo, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Campo has about 7 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 Campo's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Campo compares
About 166 days separate Campo's last and first frost, putting it 30,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CO, it ranks 35 of 624.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Campo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Campo can differ from the 81029 normal.