Palisade, CO 81643 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Palisade 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 8 weeks until Palisade's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Palisade places 21,180 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CO, it ranks 2 of 624.
Learn more
Before leaning on 81643's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Palisade's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Palisade can differ from the 81643 normal.