Las Vegas, NM 88439 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Las Vegas, NM, ZIP 88439
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 210 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Las Vegas in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Las Vegas has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Las Vegas's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Las Vegas compares
At roughly 210 frost-free days, Las Vegas places 14,985 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 85 of 427.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Las Vegas's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Las Vegas's dates instead of trusting one.