Phillipstown, IL 62827 Frost Dates
62827, near Phillipstown, IL: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Phillipstown in Zone 7a (0 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
Phillipstown'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.
The actual range around Phillipstown's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Phillipstown against the rest of the dataset
Phillipstown's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,703 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 269 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62827: local microclimates, on what one yard in Phillipstown can differ from the 62827 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Phillipstown's frost date answer different questions.