Southern View, IL 62723 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.
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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Southern View against the rest of the dataset
Southern View's growing season runs about 187 days, ranking 22,452 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 736 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62723's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Southern View's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Southern View's dates instead of trusting one.