Southern View, IL 62769 Frost Dates
62769, near Southern View, IL: the frost window
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.
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.
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 22,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 748 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62769: 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 62769 normal.