Camargo, IL 61919 Frost Dates
Camargo, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Camargo 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 8 weeks until Camargo'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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Camargo against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Camargo's last and first frost, putting it 22,166 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 699 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61919's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Camargo can differ from the 61919 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Camargo's frost date answer different questions.