Greenview, IL 62642 Frost Dates
62642, near Greenview, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Greenview sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Greenview'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.
The actual range around Greenview's last frost
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 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.
Greenview against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Greenview's last and first frost, putting it 24,254 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 904 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62642: the frost range, on how to read the range around Greenview's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenview can differ from the 62642 normal.