Bondville, IL 61826 Frost Dates
Bondville, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Bondville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Bondville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bondville's last frost
04/23 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.
Bondville against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Bondville's last and first frost, putting it 29,207 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 1,410 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61826's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Bondville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bondville's dates instead of trusting one.