Milford, IL 60953 Frost Dates
60953, near Milford, IL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 180 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 Milford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Milford's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milford against the rest of the dataset
Milford's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 24,952 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 965 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 60953: the frost range, on how to read the range around Milford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Milford can differ from the 60953 normal.