Bosque Farms, NM 87068 Frost Dates
87068, near Bosque Farms, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Bosque Farms, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bosque Farms's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Bosque Farms's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bosque Farms against the rest of the dataset
Bosque Farms's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,598 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 119 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87068: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bosque Farms's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bosque Farms's dates instead of trusting one.