Newman, IL 61942 Frost Dates
Newman, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 181 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 Newman, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Newman's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newman's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newman against the rest of the dataset
Newman's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,654 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 924 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61942's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Newman's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Newman can differ from the 61942 normal.