Edgewood, IL 62426 Frost Dates
Edgewood, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Edgewood 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Edgewood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 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.
Edgewood against the rest of the dataset
About 202 days separate Edgewood's last and first frost, putting it 17,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 185 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62426's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Edgewood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 62426 normal.