Reserve, NM 88039 Frost Dates
Reserve, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/06, about 251 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Reserve sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Reserve's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Reserve's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Reserve against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Reserve's last and first frost, putting it 31,175 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 231 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88039's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Reserve can differ from the 88039 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Reserve's frost date answer different questions.