Versailles, IL 62323 Frost Dates
62323, near Versailles, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Versailles sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Versailles's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Versailles's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Versailles against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Versailles places 25,452 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,058 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62323: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Versailles's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Versailles's dates instead of trusting one.