Albertville, MN 55301 Frost Dates
Albertville, MN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/05, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Albertville in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Albertville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Albertville's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albertville against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Albertville's last and first frost, putting it 34,256 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MN, it ranks 384 of 943.
Learn more
Before leaning on 55301's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Albertville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Albertville can differ from the 55301 normal.