Taylor Springs, IL 62089 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Taylor Springs, IL?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 190 frost-free days later.
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 Taylor Springs, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Taylor Springs before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Taylor Springs's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Taylor Springs compares
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Taylor Springs places 21,259 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 529 of 1,548.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Taylor Springs's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Taylor Springs's dates instead of trusting one.