Corona, NM 88318 Frost Dates
Corona, NM: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Corona, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Corona's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Corona's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Corona against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Corona places 28,839 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 211 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88318's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Corona can differ from the 88318 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Corona's frost date answer different questions.