Questa, NM 87556 Frost Dates
Questa, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/16, roughly 292 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/14, roughly 87 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 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 Questa, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 2 weeks until Questa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
06/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 06/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 07/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Questa against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 87 frost-free days, Questa places 39,963 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 417 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87556's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Questa's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Questa can differ from the 87556 normal.