Fults, IL 62279 Frost Dates
Fults, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fults in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until Fults's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fults's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 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.
Fults against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Fults places 18,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 326 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62279's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fults can differ from the 62279 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Fults's frost date answer different questions.