Godfrey, IL 62035 Frost Dates
Godfrey, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Godfrey sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 10 weeks until Godfrey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Godfrey's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Godfrey against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Godfrey places 14,231 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 10 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62035's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Godfrey's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Godfrey's dates instead of trusting one.