Eads, CO 81036 Frost Dates
81036, near Eads, CO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Eads 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
Eads's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
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 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eads against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 165 frost-free days, Eads places 30,682 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 62 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 81036: the frost range, on how to read the range around Eads's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Eads can differ from the 81036 normal.