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Livingston, IL 62058 Frost Dates

Livingston, IL: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.

Livingston 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 Livingston'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

04/04 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.

Livingston against the rest of the dataset

About 214 days separate Livingston's last and first frost, putting it 14,326 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 26 of 1,548.

Learn more

Before leaning on 62058's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 62058 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Livingston's frost date answer different questions.