Albin, WY 82050 Frost Dates
82050, near Albin, WY: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 142 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 Albin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Albin's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 142 frost-free days, Albin places 36,836 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WY, it ranks 22 of 192.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 82050: the frost range, on how to read the range around Albin's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Albin can differ from the 82050 normal.