Edgewood, NM 87197 Frost Dates
Edgewood, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 152 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 Edgewood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Edgewood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Edgewood's last frost
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
Edgewood's growing season runs about 152 days, ranking 34,744 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 266 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87197's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 87197 normal.