Tatum, NM 88267 Frost Dates
88267, near Tatum, NM: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 188 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 Tatum, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tatum's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Tatum's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tatum against the rest of the dataset
Tatum's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,135 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 165 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88267: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Tatum's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Tatum's dates instead of trusting one.