Southern View, IL 62736 Frost Dates
62736, near Southern View, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 187 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 Southern View, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Southern View's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Southern View's last frost
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 22,454 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 738 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62736: the frost range, on how to read the range around Southern View's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Southern View can differ from the 62736 normal.