Cedaredge, CO 81413 Frost Dates
81413, near Cedaredge, CO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cedaredge in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Cedaredge'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.
The actual range around Cedaredge's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cedaredge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Cedaredge places 33,653 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 230 of 624.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 81413: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cedaredge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cedaredge can differ from the 81413 normal.