Southern View, IL 62781 Frost Dates
Southern View, IL: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Southern View in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
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
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Southern View places 22,467 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 751 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62781's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Southern View can differ from the 62781 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Southern View's frost date answer different questions.