Palisade, CO 81526 Frost Dates
Palisade, CO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Palisade sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until Palisade's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Palisade's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palisade against the rest of the dataset
Palisade's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,179 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within CO, it ranks 1 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81526's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Palisade's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Palisade's dates instead of trusting one.