Orchard City, CO 81414 Frost Dates
Orchard City, CO: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 159 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Orchard City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
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 32,652 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 115 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81414's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Orchard City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Orchard City's dates instead of trusting one.