Edgewood, NM 87047 Frost Dates
87047, near Edgewood, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 152 days after the last spring frost.
Edgewood sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Edgewood's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/09 isn't a guarantee
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Edgewood against the rest of the dataset
About 152 days separate Edgewood's last and first frost, putting it 34,743 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 265 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87047: 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 87047 normal.