Deming, NM 88031 Frost Dates
88031, near Deming, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Deming in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Deming'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 Deming's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Deming against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Deming places 14,463 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 79 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88031: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Deming's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Deming's dates instead of trusting one.