Moline, IL 61265 Frost Dates
61265, near Moline, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Moline sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 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
Moline's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Moline's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moline against the rest of the dataset
Moline's growing season runs about 176 days, ranking 26,366 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 1,152 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 61265: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moline can differ from the 61265 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Moline's frost date answer different questions.