Edgewood, NM 87015 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Edgewood, NM, ZIP 87015
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/04, about 142 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Edgewood has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Edgewood's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Edgewood compares
At roughly 142 frost-free days, Edgewood places 36,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 323 of 427.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 87015 normal.