Flora, IL 62839 Frost Dates
62839, near Flora, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Flora sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Flora'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 04/09 isn't a guarantee
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 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.
Flora against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Flora's last and first frost, putting it 18,428 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 304 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62839: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Flora's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Flora's dates instead of trusting one.