Orchard City, CO 81410 Frost Dates
Orchard City, CO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
Orchard City sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Orchard City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Orchard City's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orchard City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 159 frost-free days, Orchard City places 32,651 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 114 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81410's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Orchard City can differ from the 81410 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Orchard City's frost date answer different questions.