Bedford Park, IL 60638 Frost Dates
Bedford Park, IL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bedford Park in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Bedford Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bedford Park's last frost
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
About 201 days separate Bedford Park's last and first frost, putting it 17,623 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 258 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 60638's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bedford Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bedford Park can differ from the 60638 normal.