Elmwood Park, IL 60707 Frost Dates
60707, near Elmwood Park, IL: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
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 Elmwood Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elmwood Park'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.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
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.
Elmwood Park against the rest of the dataset
Elmwood Park's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,741 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 378 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60707: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Elmwood Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Elmwood Park's dates instead of trusting one.