Marseilles, IL 61341 Frost Dates
Marseilles, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Marseilles 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Marseilles's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marseilles against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Marseilles places 28,637 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,369 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61341's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Marseilles's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Marseilles's dates instead of trusting one.