Anthony, NM 88027 Frost Dates
88027, near Anthony, NM: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Anthony, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Anthony's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/23 isn't a guarantee
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Anthony against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Anthony places 10,175 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 27 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88027: the frost range, on how to read the range around Anthony's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Anthony can differ from the 88027 normal.