Cheyenne, WY 82006 Frost Dates
Cheyenne, WY: when does the frost end?
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cheyenne 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 5 weeks until Cheyenne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cheyenne's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cheyenne against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 141 frost-free days, Cheyenne places 36,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WY, it ranks 25 of 192.
Learn more
Before leaning on 82006's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cheyenne can differ from the 82006 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cheyenne's frost date answer different questions.