Cloudcroft, NM 88344 Frost Dates
Cloudcroft, NM: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/07, roughly 252 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
Cloudcroft 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 6 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
05/07 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
Cloudcroft's growing season runs about 155 days, ranking 34,061 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NM, it ranks 257 of 427.
Learn more
Before leaning on 88344's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cloudcroft can differ from the 88344 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Cloudcroft's frost date answer different questions.