Sauget, IL 62207 Frost Dates
Sauget, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
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 Sauget, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Sauget's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sauget's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sauget against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Sauget places 17,919 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 286 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62207's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sauget can differ from the 62207 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Sauget's frost date answer different questions.