Meeker, CO 81641 Frost Dates
Meeker, CO: when does the frost end?
Around 06/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 280 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/16, roughly 104 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Meeker 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
With roughly 3 weeks until Meeker's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Meeker's last frost
06/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meeker against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 104 frost-free days, Meeker places 39,610 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 515 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81641's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Meeker's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Meeker can differ from the 81641 normal.