Albin, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Albin, 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 Albin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Albin — the short answer
Albin, Wyoming: USDA zone 5b, about 160 days between hard freezes, across 94 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~160
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 94 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 5b is Albin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Albin's 160-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Albin
Each reading below is measured for Albin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAlbin runs about 160 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
MeasuredAlbin sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Albin is in
Albin sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Albin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Laramie County.
What Grows in Albin
Every plant below cleared Albin's own zone 5b and its 160-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Albin?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — 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 Albin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Albin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 17-060-29abb03Nitrate · 300 ft
- Sorensens Cattlecruisers, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Albin SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Trail Ridge Farms, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Romsa FarmsUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Effie V. Woodhouse EstateUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Launch Facility Papa 4Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Launch Facility Papa 3Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Launch Facility Papa 2Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Launch Control Facility Papa 1Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- North Albin Relay StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Loren and Colette JessenUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Albin'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 Albin.
Total Sites
63
within ~10 miles of Albin
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Albin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Albin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Albin, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Albin — CAFO (4 sites) and Nitrate (36 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Albin
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Albin
Everything above resolves to Albin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 94 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 town 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 Albin Average
Albin Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Albin
- ●One soil character for all of Albin
- ●Frost dates read at Albin's scale: May 3 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Albin's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Albin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Albin, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Albin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Albin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Albin average
How we know this about Albin
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Albin’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Albin
When does frost risk typically end in Albin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Albin typically lands around May 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Albin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Albin typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 160 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Albin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Albin sees about 160 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 26, about 125 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Albin?
The federal record around Albin shows 63 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (36), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Albin?
From about Sep 10 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Albin's scale — its 5b band and its 160-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Albin'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 Albin’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Albin's own scale — its own ~160-day season between 28°F freezes, the 94 acres it covers and 63 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Albin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Albin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 10 and the ~160-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 63 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Albin, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Albin's boundary and the 94 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~160-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Albin's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Albin's 94 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Laramie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Laramie County
- The growing challenges every Wyoming grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Wyoming
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Laramie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Albin's 94 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Albin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 94 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Albin-wide figureread your own land →
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