Chandlerville, IL 62627 Frost Dates
Chandlerville, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 189 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 Chandlerville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Chandlerville'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
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chandlerville against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Chandlerville's last and first frost, putting it 21,705 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 629 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62627's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Chandlerville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Chandlerville can differ from the 62627 normal.