Papineau, IL 60956 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Papineau, IL?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/16, about 174 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Papineau, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Papineau before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Papineau's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Papineau compares
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Papineau places 27,650 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 1,277 of 1,548.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Papineau can differ from the 60956 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5b and Papineau's frost date answer different questions.