Palisade, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00056266, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,751 ft, 39.114, -108.351. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 20	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 23 (2000)	Sep 17 (1968)
Latest	May 21 (1971)	Nov 17 (1963)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	70	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

First fall frost (32°F)

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

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2025	Apr 6	Oct 30	Apr 3	Nov 27
2024	May 8	Oct 31	Apr 8	Nov 17
2023	Apr 22	Oct 29	Apr 20	Oct 30
2022	May 4	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 25
2021	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 20	Nov 18
2020	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 15	Oct 26
2019	Apr 12	Oct 11	Mar 16	Oct 12
2018	Apr 4	Oct 15	Mar 20	Nov 6
2017	Apr 29	Oct 15	Mar 8	Nov 18
2016	Apr 19	Oct 4	Mar 18	Nov 18
2015	Apr 19	Nov 5	Mar 6	Nov 12
2014	May 2	Nov 5	Apr 15	Nov 12
2013	Apr 20	Oct 19	Apr 20	Nov 6
2012	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 7	Oct 27
2011	May 1	Oct 6	Mar 29	Nov 2
2010	May 3	Oct 26	Apr 3	Oct 26
2008	May 2	Oct 12	Apr 2	Oct 13
2007	Apr 20	Oct 16	Mar 31	Nov 22
2006	Apr 19	Oct 20	Mar 20	Nov 12
2005	Apr 1	Nov 15	Mar 17	Nov 16
2004	Mar 28	Oct 23	Feb 17	Nov 2
2003	Apr 20	Nov 4	Apr 4	Nov 4
2002	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 3
2001	Apr 13	Oct 24	Apr 13	Oct 24
2000	Mar 23	Oct 14	Mar 19	Nov 7
1999	May 6	Oct 18	Apr 10	Nov 20
1998	Mar 31	Nov 5	Mar 30	Nov 7
1997	May 2	Oct 13	Apr 14	Oct 26
1996	Apr 19	Oct 17	Apr 19	Oct 17
1995	Apr 24	Oct 23	Mar 8	Oct 23
1994	Apr 12	Oct 31	Mar 28	Nov 14
1993	Apr 19	Oct 28	Mar 14	Oct 30
1991	Apr 29	no data	Apr 29	no data
1990	Apr 29	Oct 9	Mar 15	Nov 4
1989	Apr 4	Oct 29	Mar 15	Oct 30
1988	May 7	Nov 5	Apr 9	Nov 16
1987	Apr 13	Nov 13	Mar 31	Nov 16
1986	Apr 14	Oct 12	Apr 14	Oct 12
1985	Apr 5	Nov 7	Mar 30	Nov 14
1984	Apr 28	Oct 15	Apr 27	Nov 3
1983	May 11	Nov 8	Apr 7	Nov 16
1982	Apr 20	no data	Apr 7	no data
1981	Apr 5	Oct 31	Mar 31	Nov 19
1980	Apr 8	Oct 25	Apr 8	Nov 15
1979	May 8	Oct 22	Apr 2	Oct 31
1978	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 21	Nov 17
1977	Apr 5	Oct 31	Apr 4	Nov 9
1976	Apr 26	Oct 18	Mar 29	Oct 28
1975	May 6	Oct 8	Apr 29	Oct 24
1974	Apr 14	Oct 30	Apr 14	Nov 13
1971	May 21	Oct 30	Apr 1	Oct 30
1970	Apr 30	Oct 8	Apr 12	Oct 27
1969	Apr 8	Oct 12	Mar 25	Nov 18
1968	May 7	Sep 17	Apr 7	Nov 8
1967	Apr 21	Oct 30	Apr 21	Nov 3
1966	Apr 21	Oct 15	Apr 19	Nov 9
1965	Apr 12	Sep 18	Mar 25	Nov 27
1964	Apr 25	Nov 13	Mar 29	Nov 15
1963	Apr 26	Nov 17	Apr 2	Nov 17
1962	Apr 29	Nov 7	Mar 16	Nov 18
1961	Apr 25	Oct 23	Apr 15	Nov 3
1960	Apr 17	Oct 26	Mar 17	Oct 26
1959	Apr 19	Oct 8	Apr 10	Nov 5
1958	Apr 26	Oct 21	Apr 6	Nov 17
1957	Apr 26	Nov 8	Apr 8	Nov 9
1956	Apr 7	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 3
1955	Apr 20	Oct 6	Apr 5	Nov 2
1954	Apr 1	Oct 27	Mar 31	Nov 27
1953	Apr 13	Oct 24	Apr 11	Nov 19
1952	Apr 1	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 10
1951	Apr 12	Nov 1	Apr 11	Nov 1

"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.