Anthony, NM 88072 Frost Dates
Anthony, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Anthony sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 11 weeks until Anthony's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Anthony against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Anthony's last and first frost, putting it 8,536 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 13 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88072's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Anthony can differ from the 88072 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Anthony's frost date answer different questions.