Lincolnwood, IL 60646 Frost Dates
Lincolnwood, IL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lincolnwood 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 Lincolnwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lincolnwood's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincolnwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Lincolnwood places 19,764 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 386 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 60646's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lincolnwood can differ from the 60646 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Lincolnwood's frost date answer different questions.