Reserve, NM 87830 Frost Dates
Reserve, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/30, about 275 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 127 days after the last spring frost.
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 Reserve, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Reserve's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Reserve's last frost
05/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Reserve against the rest of the dataset
About 127 days separate Reserve's last and first frost, putting it 38,659 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 368 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 87830's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Reserve can differ from the 87830 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Reserve's frost date answer different questions.