Buckner, IL 62819 Frost Dates
62819, near Buckner, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Buckner sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Buckner's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Buckner's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buckner against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Buckner places 16,737 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 142 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62819: the frost range, on how to read the range around Buckner's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Buckner can differ from the 62819 normal.