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Abingdon, IL 61410 Frost Dates

Abingdon, IL: when does the frost end?

Zone 5b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/21, about 236 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.

Abingdon 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 8 weeks until Abingdon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Abingdon's last frost

04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Abingdon against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 181 frost-free days, Abingdon places 24,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 917 of 1,548.

Learn more

Before leaning on 61410's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Abingdon's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Abingdon can differ from the 61410 normal.