Albertville, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Albertville, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Albertville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Albertville — the short answer
Albertville, Minnesota: USDA zone 4b, about 182 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~182
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 4b is Albertville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Albertville's 182-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Albertville
Each reading below is measured for Albertville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAlbertville runs about 182 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAlbertville sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Albertville is in
Albertville sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Albertville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wright County.
What Grows in Albertville
Every plant below cleared Albertville's own zone 4b and its 182-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Albertville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Albertville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Albertville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COBORN'S ALBERTVILLE 2029Brownfields · 450 ft
- VISION OF STMA INCBrownfields · 550 ft
- ACE OF ALBERTVILLEBrownfields · 750 ft
- DJS TOTAL HOME CARE CENTERBrownfields · 800 ft
- S & J INC DBA PRECISION AUTOBrownfields · 1000 ft
- SHERWIN-WILLIAMS 3258Brownfields · 1000 ft
- METRO DENTALCARE - ALBERTVILLEBrownfields · 1000 ft
- DOLLAR TREE 06057Brownfields · 1100 ft
- GERBER COLLISION & GLASS - ALBERTVILLEBrownfields · 2300 ft
- DONS AUTO SERVICE & REPAIRBrownfields · 2300 ft
- Dons Auto Service & RepairUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Eull Concrete ProductsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Albertville's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Albertville.
Total Sites
1,007
within ~10 miles of Albertville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
22 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Albertville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Albertville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Albertville, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 642 sites within ~10 miles of Albertville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Albertville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Albertville average
Your land is one point inside Albertville
Everything above resolves to Albertville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Albertville Average
Albertville Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Albertville
- ●One soil character for all of Albertville
- ●Frost dates read at Albertville's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Albertville's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Albertville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Albertville, Minnesota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Albertville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Albertville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Albertville average
How we know this about Albertville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Albertville’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Albertville
When does frost risk typically end in Albertville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Albertville typically lands around Apr 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 9.
When is the first frost in Albertville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Albertville typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 182 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Albertville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Albertville sees about 182 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 3, about 147 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Albertville?
The federal record around Albertville is a meaningful one — 1,007 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (642), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Albertville?
From about Sep 17 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Albertville's scale — its 4b band and its 182-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Albertville's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Albertville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Albertville's own scale — its own ~182-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,828 acres it covers and 1,007 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Albertville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Albertville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 17 and the ~182-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,007 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Albertville, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Albertville's boundary and the 2,828 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~182-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Albertville's own centroid, the North Central Hardwood ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Albertville's 2,828 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wright County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wright County
- The growing challenges every Minnesota grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Minnesota
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Wright County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Albertville's 2,828 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Albertville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,828 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Albertville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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