Roswell, NM 88202 Frost Dates
Roswell, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Roswell sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 10 weeks until Roswell'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
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Roswell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 223 frost-free days, Roswell places 12,010 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 51 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88202's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Roswell's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Roswell's dates instead of trusting one.