Warsaw, IL 62379 Frost Dates
Warsaw, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Warsaw, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Warsaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Warsaw's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Warsaw against the rest of the dataset
Warsaw's growing season runs about 194 days, ranking 19,519 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 359 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62379's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Warsaw can differ from the 62379 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Warsaw's frost date answer different questions.