Las Vegas, NM 87569 Frost Dates
87569, near Las Vegas, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Las Vegas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Las Vegas's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Las Vegas's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Las Vegas's last and first frost, putting it 26,399 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 202 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87569: local microclimates, on what one yard in Las Vegas can differ from the 87569 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions.