Grants, NM 87007 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Grants, NM?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 145 frost-free days later.
Grants sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 5 weeks of growing season left in Grants before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Grants compares
At roughly 145 frost-free days, Grants places 36,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 306 of 427.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Grants can differ from the 87007 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Grants's frost date answer different questions.