Southern View, IL 62705 Frost Dates
Southern View, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Southern View 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Southern View's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Southern View against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Southern View places 22,447 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 731 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62705's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Southern View's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Southern View can differ from the 62705 normal.