Last Frost Day

Frost history / Genoa, CO

Genoa, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00053258, 1970 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 5,593 ft, 39.277, -103.494. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 12Oct 7
EarliestApr 16 (2012)Sep 8 (2020)
LatestMay 24 (2019)Oct 28 (2015)
Trend2.7 days earlier per decade4.7 days later per decade
Years with data1615

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 10.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 301970198019902000201020201971: May 232004: May 142009: Apr 272010: May 132011: May 162012: Apr 162013: May 32015: May 112016: May 22017: May 202018: Apr 252019: May 242021: May 122022: May 212023: Apr 302025: Apr 28

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 111970198019902000201020201970: Sep 101971: Sep 172004: Oct 142009: Oct 22010: Oct 262011: Oct 182012: Oct 42013: Oct 52014: Sep 122015: Oct 282016: Oct 72019: Oct 102020: Sep 82023: Oct 142025: Oct 18

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 28Oct 18Apr 20Oct 29
2023Apr 30Oct 14Apr 23Oct 14
2022May 21no dataApr 25no data
2021May 12no dataApr 24no data
2020no dataSep 8no dataSep 9
2019May 24Oct 10May 24Oct 10
2018Apr 25no dataApr 25no data
2017May 20no dataApr 30no data
2016May 2Oct 7May 2Oct 7
2015May 11Oct 28May 11Nov 7
2014no dataSep 12no dataOct 31
2013May 3Oct 5May 2Oct 5
2012Apr 16Oct 4Apr 7Oct 7
2011May 16Oct 18May 2Oct 26
2010May 13Oct 26May 13Oct 27
2009Apr 27Oct 2Apr 10Oct 9
2004May 14Oct 14Apr 30Oct 31
1971May 23Sep 17May 19Sep 17
1970no dataSep 10no dataSep 23

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.