Southern View, IL 62757 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Southern View, IL, ZIP 62757
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 187 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 Southern View, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Southern View has about 8 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Southern View compares
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Southern View places 22,457 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 741 of 1,548.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Southern View's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Southern View can differ from the 62757 normal.