Cherry Valley, IL 61016 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cherry Valley, IL, ZIP 61016
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 174 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cherry Valley in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 5b around Cherry Valley has about 7 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 Cherry Valley's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cherry Valley compares
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Cherry Valley places 27,486 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,243 of 1,548.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Cherry Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cherry Valley's dates instead of trusting one.