Fruita, CO 81524 Frost Dates
Fruita, CO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Fruita 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 7 weeks until Fruita's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fruita's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fruita against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Fruita's last and first frost, putting it 28,214 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CO, it ranks 13 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81524's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fruita can differ from the 81524 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Fruita's frost date answer different questions.