Ivesdale, IL 61851 Frost Dates
Ivesdale, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Ivesdale sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Ivesdale'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
04/23 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.
Ivesdale against the rest of the dataset
Ivesdale's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,227 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 1,413 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61851's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ivesdale can differ from the 61851 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Ivesdale's frost date answer different questions.