Wagon Mound, NM 87753 Frost Dates
87753, near Wagon Mound, NM: the frost window
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
Wagon Mound 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
Wagon Mound'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.
The actual range around Wagon Mound'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.
Wagon Mound against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Wagon Mound's last and first frost, putting it 35,574 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 290 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87753: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Wagon Mound's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wagon Mound's dates instead of trusting one.