Lamar, CO 81052 Frost Dates
81052, near Lamar, 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 10/10, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lamar 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
Lamar'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.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 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.
Lamar against the rest of the dataset
About 163 days separate Lamar's last and first frost, putting it 31,363 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CO, it ranks 68 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 81052: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Lamar's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lamar's dates instead of trusting one.