Cloudcroft, NM 88339 Frost Dates
Cloudcroft, NM: when does the frost end?
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 155 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 Cloudcroft, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Cloudcroft's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cloudcroft against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 155 frost-free days, Cloudcroft places 34,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 256 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88339's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cloudcroft's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cloudcroft can differ from the 88339 normal.