Jemez Springs, NM 87025 Frost Dates
87025, near Jemez Springs, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 06/10, about 286 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/13, roughly 94 days after the last spring frost.
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 Jemez Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Jemez Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 2 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Jemez Springs's last frost
06/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jemez Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 94 days separate Jemez Springs's last and first frost, putting it 39,853 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 413 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87025: local microclimates, on what one yard in Jemez Springs can differ from the 87025 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Jemez Springs's frost date answer different questions.