Lincolnwood, IL 60657 Frost Dates
60657, near Lincolnwood, IL: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Lincolnwood 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
Lincolnwood's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lincolnwood's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincolnwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Lincolnwood places 15,554 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 82 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60657: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Lincolnwood's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lincolnwood's dates instead of trusting one.