Fort Sumner, NM 88134 Frost Dates
Fort Sumner, 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 Fort Sumner, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Fort Sumner's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fort Sumner's last frost
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.
Fort Sumner against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Fort Sumner's last and first frost, putting it 21,243 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 150 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88134's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Sumner's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Sumner can differ from the 88134 normal.