Woodson, IL 62695 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Woodson, IL, ZIP 62695
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 179 frost-free days later.
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 Woodson, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Woodson has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Woodson's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Woodson compares
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Woodson places 25,447 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,056 of 1,548.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Woodson can differ from the 62695 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Woodson's frost date answer different questions.