Elkville, IL 62932 Frost Dates
Elkville, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Elkville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Elkville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elkville's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elkville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Elkville places 18,163 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 294 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 62932's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Elkville can differ from the 62932 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Elkville's frost date answer different questions.