Norwood, IL 61528 Frost Dates
Norwood, IL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
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 Norwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Norwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Norwood against the rest of the dataset
Norwood's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,709 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IL, it ranks 632 of 1,548.
Learn more
Before leaning on 61528's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Norwood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Norwood can differ from the 61528 normal.