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White Hall, IL 62092 Frost Dates

62092, near White Hall, IL: the frost window

Zone 6a

Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts White Hall in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

White Hall'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.

The actual range around White Hall's last frost

04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

White Hall against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 190 frost-free days, White Hall places 21,187 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 513 of 1,548.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 62092: the frost range, on how to read the range around White Hall's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in White Hall can differ from the 62092 normal.