Kenney, IL 62512 Frost Dates
62512, near Kenney, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 179 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 Kenney, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kenney'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kenney against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Kenney places 25,482 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,066 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62512: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kenney's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kenney can differ from the 62512 normal.