Pecos, NM 87535 Frost Dates
87535, near Pecos, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/15, about 260 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 138 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pecos 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
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 37,411 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 330 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87535: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pecos can differ from the 87535 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pecos's frost date answer different questions.