Hagerman, NM 88232 Frost Dates
Hagerman, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Hagerman, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Hagerman's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hagerman's last frost
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.
Hagerman against the rest of the dataset
Hagerman's growing season runs about 223 days, ranking 12,101 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 60 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88232's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hagerman can differ from the 88232 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hagerman's frost date answer different questions.