Wagon Mound, NM 87752 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Wagon Mound, NM?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 164 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Wagon Mound, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Wagon Mound before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Wagon Mound's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wagon Mound compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Wagon Mound places 31,189 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 232 of 427.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Wagon Mound's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Wagon Mound can differ from the 87752 normal.