Lovington, NM 88260 Frost Dates
Lovington, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Lovington 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 11 weeks until Lovington'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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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.
Lovington against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Lovington's last and first frost, putting it 10,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 31 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88260's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lovington's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lovington's dates instead of trusting one.