Hurley, NM 88041 Frost Dates
88041, near Hurley, NM: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hurley in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Hurley's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Hurley's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hurley against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Hurley's last and first frost, putting it 20,820 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 145 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88041: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hurley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hurley can differ from the 88041 normal.