Pecos, NM 87562 Frost Dates
87562, 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.
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
About 138 days separate Pecos's last and first frost, putting it 37,413 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 332 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87562: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pecos's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pecos's dates instead of trusting one.