Southern View, IL 62763 Frost Dates
Southern View, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. 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
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.
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 22,459 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 743 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62763's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Southern View can differ from the 62763 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Southern View's frost date answer different questions.