Milan, NM 87365 Frost Dates
87365, near Milan, NM: the frost window
Around 05/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 274 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/26, roughly 118 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Milan in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Milan's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Milan's last frost
05/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milan against the rest of the dataset
About 118 days separate Milan's last and first frost, putting it 39,205 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 393 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87365: local microclimates, on what one yard in Milan can differ from the 87365 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Milan's frost date answer different questions.