Las Vegas, NM 87745 Frost Dates
87745, near Las Vegas, NM: the frost window
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.
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 6 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
05/10 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
Las Vegas's growing season runs about 149 days, ranking 35,493 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 275 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87745: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one.