Orland Park, IL 60467 Frost Dates
60467, near Orland Park, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Orland Park sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Orland Park's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Orland Park's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orland Park against the rest of the dataset
Orland Park's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,749 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 875 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60467: local microclimates, on what one yard in Orland Park can differ from the 60467 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Orland Park's frost date answer different questions.