Lordsburg, NM 88020 Frost Dates
Lordsburg, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Lordsburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lordsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lordsburg's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lordsburg against the rest of the dataset
Lordsburg's growing season runs about 218 days, ranking 13,281 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 63 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88020's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Lordsburg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lordsburg's dates instead of trusting one.