House, NM 88121 Frost Dates
88121, near House, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
House 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
House'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.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
House against the rest of the dataset
About 192 days separate House's last and first frost, putting it 20,606 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 139 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88121: local microclimates, on what one yard in House can differ from the 88121 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and House's frost date answer different questions.