New Albin, IA 52160 Frost Dates
New Albin, IA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
New Albin sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
With roughly 7 weeks until New Albin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New Albin's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Albin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, New Albin places 25,883 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IA, it ranks 116 of 1,042.
Learn more
Before leaning on 52160's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and New Albin's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New Albin's dates instead of trusting one.