Santa Clara, NM 88022 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Santa Clara, NM, ZIP 88022
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 216 frost-free days later.
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 Santa Clara, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Santa Clara has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Santa Clara's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Santa Clara compares
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Santa Clara places 13,828 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 72 of 427.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Santa Clara's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Santa Clara can differ from the 88022 normal.