Kell, IL 62853 Frost Dates
Kell, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Kell 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Kell's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Kell's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kell against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Kell's last and first frost, putting it 19,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 330 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62853's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Kell can differ from the 62853 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Kell's frost date answer different questions.