Lakemoor, IL 60050 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lakemoor, IL, ZIP 60050
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/11, about 162 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Lakemoor, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Lakemoor has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lakemoor compares
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Lakemoor places 31,708 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,535 of 1,548.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Lakemoor's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Lakemoor can differ from the 60050 normal.