Northern lights tonight in Colorado

Colorado sits at about 48° magnetic latitude, so the aurora reaches it from roughly Kp 8.9 — very rare: only the strongest storms, a handful of nights a decade. The card below reads NOAA's oval, tonight's dark hours, the cloud and the Moon for Pawnee National Grassland right now.

Colorado is a storm-only state: at 47–48° magnetic latitude the Front Range needs Kp 8, a G4, which happened several times in 2024–25 and made the searches. When it does come, the place to be is the north-east plains — Pawnee Grassland and Jackson Lake have a bare horizon toward Wyoming and Denver's dome 100 km behind you. Cameron Pass is darker but its northern horizon is mountains, which matters when the arc is at 4°. On a G4 night the display can reach the zenith even here and the reds dominate; on anything less, expect a low camera-only glow and set your expectations by the live number, not the headline.