Hometown, IL 60652 Frost Dates
60652, near Hometown, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Hometown 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
Hometown'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
04/10 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hometown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Hometown places 16,915 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 166 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60652: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hometown can differ from the 60652 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Hometown's frost date answer different questions.