Farmington, NM 87415 Frost Dates
87415, near Farmington, NM: the frost window
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Farmington in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Farmington'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Farmington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 147 frost-free days, Farmington places 35,836 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 295 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87415: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Farmington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Farmington's dates instead of trusting one.