Nashville, IL 62263 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Nashville, IL, ZIP 62263
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 201 frost-free days later.
Nashville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Nashville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Nashville's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Nashville compares
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Nashville places 17,518 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 252 of 1,548.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Nashville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Nashville can differ from the 62263 normal.