Strongsville, OH 44149 Frost Dates
44149, near Strongsville, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Strongsville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Strongsville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Strongsville against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Strongsville's last and first frost, putting it 18,276 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 80 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44149: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Strongsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Strongsville's dates instead of trusting one.