Pecos, NM 87508 Frost Dates
87508, near Pecos, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/15, roughly 260 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 138 days after the last spring frost.
Pecos sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pecos's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pecos against the rest of the dataset
Pecos's growing season runs about 138 days, ranking 37,410 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 329 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87508: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pecos's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pecos can differ from the 87508 normal.