Cloudcroft, NM 88317 Frost Dates
Cloudcroft, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/18, about 263 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 134 days after the last spring frost.
Cloudcroft sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 5 weeks until Cloudcroft's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cloudcroft's last frost
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cloudcroft against the rest of the dataset
About 134 days separate Cloudcroft's last and first frost, putting it 37,992 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 357 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88317's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cloudcroft can differ from the 88317 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Cloudcroft's frost date answer different questions.