Mulberry Grove, IL 62262 Frost Dates
62262, near Mulberry Grove, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Mulberry Grove 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
Mulberry Grove'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 Mulberry Grove's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mulberry Grove against the rest of the dataset
About 202 days separate Mulberry Grove's last and first frost, putting it 17,333 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 183 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62262: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mulberry Grove can differ from the 62262 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Mulberry Grove's frost date answer different questions.