Las Vegas, NM 87732 Frost Dates
Las Vegas, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
Las Vegas sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Las Vegas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Las Vegas's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Las Vegas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 149 frost-free days, Las Vegas places 35,490 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 272 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87732's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Las Vegas can differ from the 87732 normal.