Mount Olive, IL 62069 Frost Dates
62069, near Mount Olive, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 188 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 Mount Olive, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mount Olive's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Olive against the rest of the dataset
Mount Olive's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,085 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 688 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62069: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Mount Olive's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Mount Olive's dates instead of trusting one.