Wauconda, IL 60084 Frost Dates
Wauconda, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Wauconda sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Wauconda's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wauconda's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wauconda against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Wauconda places 28,212 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,339 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 60084's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Wauconda's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wauconda's dates instead of trusting one.