Grants, NM 87020 Frost Dates
Grants, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/24, about 269 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 129 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 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 Grants, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Grants's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grants against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 129 frost-free days, Grants places 38,448 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 363 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87020's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Grants's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Grants can differ from the 87020 normal.