Lincolnwood, IL 60712 Frost Dates
60712, near Lincolnwood, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 176 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 8 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
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lincolnwood against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Lincolnwood's last and first frost, putting it 26,397 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IL, it ranks 1,162 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60712: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lincolnwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lincolnwood can differ from the 60712 normal.