Parachute, CO 81636 Frost Dates
Parachute, CO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/17, about 262 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Parachute, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Parachute's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Parachute's last frost
05/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parachute against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 136 frost-free days, Parachute places 37,713 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 418 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81636's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Parachute's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Parachute's dates instead of trusting one.