Beckemeyer, IL 62219 Frost Dates
Beckemeyer, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Beckemeyer sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 9 weeks until Beckemeyer's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Beckemeyer's last frost
04/06 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 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beckemeyer against the rest of the dataset
Beckemeyer's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,678 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 132 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62219's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Beckemeyer's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Beckemeyer can differ from the 62219 normal.