Melrose, NM 88124 Frost Dates
Melrose, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Melrose, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Melrose'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
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 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.
Melrose against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Melrose places 21,267 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 151 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88124's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Melrose can differ from the 88124 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Melrose's frost date answer different questions.