Moweaqua, IL 62550 Frost Dates
62550, near Moweaqua, IL: the frost window
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 192 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 Moweaqua, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moweaqua's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moweaqua against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Moweaqua places 20,401 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 422 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62550: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moweaqua can differ from the 62550 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Moweaqua's frost date answer different questions.