Artesia, NM 88210 Frost Dates
Artesia, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Artesia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Artesia'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
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Artesia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Artesia places 11,164 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 37 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88210's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Artesia can differ from the 88210 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Artesia's frost date answer different questions.