Edgewood, NM 87010 Frost Dates
87010, near Edgewood, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Edgewood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Edgewood's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edgewood against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Edgewood's last and first frost, putting it 30,905 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 229 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87010: the frost range, on how to read the range around Edgewood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 87010 normal.