Norwood, IL 61654 Frost Dates
61654, near Norwood, IL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Norwood 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
Norwood'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.
Why 04/16 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Norwood places 21,716 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IL, it ranks 639 of 1,548.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 61654: the frost range, on how to read the range around Norwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Norwood can differ from the 61654 normal.