Logan, NM 88430 Frost Dates
88430, near Logan, NM: the frost window
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Logan 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
Logan'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.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Logan against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Logan places 23,931 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 182 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88430: the frost range, on how to read the range around Logan's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Logan can differ from the 88430 normal.