Aroma Park, IL 60910 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Aroma Park, IL?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 188 frost-free days later.
Aroma Park sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Aroma Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Aroma Park's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Aroma Park compares
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Aroma Park places 22,143 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 694 of 1,548.
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local microclimates covers what one yard in Aroma Park can differ from the 60910 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5b and Aroma Park's frost date answer different questions.