Pocahontas, IL 62275 Frost Dates
Pocahontas, IL: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pocahontas in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Pocahontas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pocahontas'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.
Pocahontas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Pocahontas places 16,696 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 133 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62275's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pocahontas can differ from the 62275 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pocahontas's frost date answer different questions.