Last Frost Day

Frost history / Boulder 14 W, CO

Boulder 14 W, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094075, 2004 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 9,828 ft, 40.035, -105.541. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianJun 21Sep 2
EarliestJun 2 (2016)Aug 1 (2023)
LatestJul 8 (2024)Sep 20 (2013)
Trend3.1 days later per decade3.1 days later per decade
Years with data2121

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 26 and the median first fall date is Sep 17.

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)

May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29Jul 14201020202004: Jun 232005: Jun 132006: Jun 272007: Jun 142008: Jun 292009: Jun 222010: Jun 142011: Jun 202012: Jun 132013: Jun 62014: Jun 152015: Jun 82016: Jun 22017: Jul 12018: Jul 12019: Jun 232020: Jul 12021: Jun 42022: Jun 212023: Jun 252024: Jul 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Jul 14Jul 29Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27201020202004: Aug 122005: Aug 312006: Aug 282007: Sep 102008: Aug 152009: Aug 92010: Sep 22011: Sep 32012: Aug 192013: Sep 202014: Sep 112015: Aug 192016: Sep 92017: Sep 52018: Aug 202019: Aug 272020: Sep 72021: Sep 52022: Sep 102023: Aug 12024: Sep 6

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
2024Jul 8Sep 6May 23Oct 8
2023Jun 25Aug 1May 9Sep 25
2022Jun 21Sep 10Jun 2Oct 5
2021Jun 4Sep 5May 28Sep 21
2020Jul 1Sep 7Jun 9Sep 8
2019Jun 23Aug 27Jun 10Sep 13
2018Jul 1Aug 20May 1Sep 21
2017Jul 1Sep 5May 23Sep 17
2016Jun 2Sep 9May 26Sep 9
2015Jun 8Aug 19May 25Sep 19
2014Jun 15Sep 11May 15Sep 11
2013Jun 6Sep 20Jun 4Sep 20
2012Jun 13Aug 19May 29Oct 3
2011Jun 20Sep 3May 26Sep 21
2010Jun 14Sep 2May 31Sep 3
2009Jun 22Aug 9May 17Sep 19
2008Jun 29Aug 15May 30Sep 4
2007Jun 14Sep 10Jun 8Sep 11
2006Jun 27Aug 28May 16Sep 3
2005Jun 13Aug 31May 14Sep 14
2004Jun 23Aug 12Jun 22Aug 28

"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.