Brussels, IL 62036 Frost Dates
62036, near Brussels, IL: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Brussels, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Brussels's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Brussels's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brussels against the rest of the dataset
Brussels's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 17,062 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 175 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62036: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brussels can differ from the 62036 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Brussels's frost date answer different questions.