Lordsburg, NM 85632 Frost Dates
Lordsburg, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Lordsburg sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Lordsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lordsburg's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lordsburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Lordsburg places 22,072 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 162 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 85632's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lordsburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lordsburg can differ from the 85632 normal.