Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Frost Dates
60007, near Elk Grove Village, IL: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Elk Grove Village, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elk Grove Village's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elk Grove Village against the rest of the dataset
Elk Grove Village's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,736 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 375 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60007: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Elk Grove Village's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Elk Grove Village's dates instead of trusting one.