Las Vegas, NM 87583 Frost Dates
87583, near Las Vegas, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Las Vegas 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
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
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Las Vegas places 26,400 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 203 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87583: local microclimates, on what one yard in Las Vegas can differ from the 87583 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions.