Climate

When I first came to wheat Ridge, I used to worry about the cold for my garden and focused on finding cold tolerant trees and plants. But now that I have been here for 15 years of gardening, I think the heat is actually more of a challenge, especially for the vegetables and fruits. Wheat Ridge’s highest recorded day temperature is 103F (for Denver it is 105F). There were 103F temps recorded in June of 1990 and 2012 and in July of 1989 and 1990. Those seem to be our peak max temp events thus far, however, it is fairly typical each year for us to have a few or several days over 100 degrees (2024 had 6 days, 2012 had 13)!