Wayne City, IL 62895 Frost Dates
Wayne City, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Wayne City 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 Wayne City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wayne City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Wayne City places 19,995 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 404 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62895's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wayne City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wayne City's dates instead of trusting one.