Evergreen Park, IL 60636 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Evergreen Park, IL?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 201 frost-free days later.
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 Evergreen Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Evergreen Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Evergreen Park's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Evergreen Park compares
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Evergreen Park places 17,452 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 241 of 1,548.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Evergreen Park can differ from the 60636 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Evergreen Park's frost date answer different questions.