Huey, IL 62252 Frost Dates
62252, near Huey, IL: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Huey 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
Huey's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Huey against the rest of the dataset
Huey's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,784 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 146 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62252: local microclimates, on what one yard in Huey can differ from the 62252 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Huey's frost date answer different questions.