Hoffman, IL 62250 Frost Dates
Hoffman, 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.
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 Hoffman, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Hoffman's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hoffman'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.
Hoffman against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Hoffman's last and first frost, putting it 16,725 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 138 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62250's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Hoffman's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hoffman's dates instead of trusting one.