Moriarty, NM 87035 Frost Dates
Moriarty, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 142 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 Moriarty, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Moriarty'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
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moriarty against the rest of the dataset
About 142 days separate Moriarty's last and first frost, putting it 36,748 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 324 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87035's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Moriarty can differ from the 87035 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Moriarty's frost date answer different questions.