Nokomis, IL 62075 Frost Dates
Nokomis, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Nokomis sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 8 weeks until Nokomis's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Nokomis's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nokomis against the rest of the dataset
About 190 days separate Nokomis's last and first frost, putting it 21,188 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 514 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62075's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Nokomis's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Nokomis can differ from the 62075 normal.