Pecos, NM 87573 Frost Dates
Pecos, NM: when does the frost end?
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 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Pecos's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pecos's last frost
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
At roughly 138 frost-free days, Pecos places 37,415 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 334 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87573's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Pecos's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pecos's dates instead of trusting one.