Last Frost Day

Frost history / Guffey 9SE, CO

Guffey 9SE, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00053652, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 8,915 ft, 38.687, -105.392. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 24Sep 27
EarliestMay 4 (2018)Sep 8 (2020)
LatestJun 15 (2014)Oct 19 (2024)
Trend3.6 days earlier per decade7.3 days later per decade
Years with data1616

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 9.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29201020202010: May 252011: May 212012: May 242013: May 212014: Jun 152015: May 212016: May 282017: May 282018: May 42019: May 302020: Jun 92021: May 132022: Jun 12023: May 112024: May 232025: May 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202010: Oct 92011: Sep 212012: Oct 42013: Sep 282014: Sep 122015: Sep 192016: Sep 102017: Oct 32018: Sep 262019: Sep 222020: Sep 82021: Sep 212022: Oct 82023: Oct 72024: Oct 192025: Oct 7

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
2025May 20Oct 7May 15Oct 13
2024May 23Oct 19May 23Oct 30
2023May 11Oct 7Apr 28Oct 13
2022Jun 1Oct 8May 25Oct 24
2021May 13Sep 21May 12Oct 13
2020Jun 9Sep 8May 11Sep 8
2019May 30Sep 22May 30Oct 7
2018May 4Sep 26Apr 27Oct 9
2017May 28Oct 3May 23Oct 9
2016May 28Sep 10May 17Oct 4
2015May 21Sep 19May 11Oct 28
2014Jun 15Sep 12May 15Sep 12
2013May 21Sep 28May 10Sep 28
2012May 24Oct 4May 8Oct 4
2011May 21Sep 21May 20Oct 7
2010May 25Oct 9May 16Oct 25

"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.