Cedarville, IL 61013 Frost Dates
Cedarville, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Cedarville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Cedarville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cedarville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cedarville against the rest of the dataset
About 169 days separate Cedarville's last and first frost, putting it 29,547 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 1,434 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61013's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cedarville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedarville can differ from the 61013 normal.