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Venice, IL 62090 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Venice, IL, ZIP 62090

Zone 7a

Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 218 frost-free days later.

Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Venice, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7a around Venice has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Venice's last frost

04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Venice compares

At roughly 218 frost-free days, Venice places 13,298 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 2 of 1,548.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Venice's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Venice's dates instead of trusting one.