Stryker, OH 43557 Frost Dates
43557, near Stryker, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Stryker sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Stryker's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stryker against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Stryker's last and first frost, putting it 29,097 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,175 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43557: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Stryker's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stryker's dates instead of trusting one.