Kirtland, NM 87455 Frost Dates
Kirtland, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 163 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Kirtland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Kirtland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Kirtland's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kirtland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Kirtland places 31,507 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 238 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87455's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Kirtland can differ from the 87455 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Kirtland's frost date answer different questions.