Bedford Park, IL 60629 Frost Dates
60629, near Bedford Park, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 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 Bedford Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bedford Park'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
04/11 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 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bedford Park against the rest of the dataset
Bedford Park's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,622 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 257 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60629: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bedford Park can differ from the 60629 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Bedford Park's frost date answer different questions.