Lake Arthur, NM 88253 Frost Dates
Lake Arthur, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 218 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 Lake Arthur, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lake Arthur'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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Arthur against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Lake Arthur's last and first frost, putting it 13,333 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 65 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88253's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Arthur's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Arthur can differ from the 88253 normal.