Midlothian, IL 60445 Frost Dates
60445, near Midlothian, IL: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 203 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 Midlothian, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Midlothian'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Midlothian against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Midlothian places 16,866 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 155 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60445: the frost range, on how to read the range around Midlothian's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Midlothian can differ from the 60445 normal.