Truth or Consequences, NM 87939 Frost Dates
87939, near Truth or Consequences, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Truth or Consequences, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Truth or Consequences's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Truth or Consequences's last frost
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Truth or Consequences against the rest of the dataset
Truth or Consequences's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,371 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 33 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87939: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Truth or Consequences's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Truth or Consequences's dates instead of trusting one.