Hoffman Estates, IL 60195 Frost Dates
Hoffman Estates, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
Hoffman Estates 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 7 weeks until Hoffman Estates's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hoffman Estates's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hoffman Estates against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Hoffman Estates places 25,999 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,116 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 60195's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hoffman Estates can differ from the 60195 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Hoffman Estates's frost date answer different questions.