Strykersville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Strykersville, 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 Strykersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Strykersville — the short answer
Strykersville, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~178
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 5b is Strykersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Strykersville's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Strykersville
Each reading below is measured for Strykersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStrykersville runs about 178 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
MeasuredStrykersville 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 Strykersville is in
Strykersville sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Strykersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wyoming County.
What Grows in Strykersville
Every plant below cleared Strykersville's own zone 5b and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Strykersville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Strykersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Strykersville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Strykersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Strykersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JOHNSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PINGREY DAIRY FARMCAFO · 0.6 mi
- KWIK FILL MO397/397Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DAN PINGREY FARMCAFO · 0.6 mi
- GOLD STAR FEED & GRAIN - STRYKERSVILLEToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- STRYKERSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- FONTAINE FARM LLCCAFO · 1.7 mi
- MARZOLF DAIRY FARM, INCCAFO · 2.2 mi
- EDGAR HAUBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- HILLCREST AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- BECKER ESTATEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- CARL J DOMINESEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Strykersville'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 Strykersville.
Total Sites
193
within ~10 miles of Strykersville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Strykersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Strykersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Strykersville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Strykersville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Strykersville
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 Strykersville average
Your land is one point inside Strykersville
Everything above resolves to Strykersville 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 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 Strykersville Average
Strykersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Strykersville
- ●One soil character for all of Strykersville
- ●Frost dates read at Strykersville's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Strykersville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Strykersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Strykersville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Strykersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Strykersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Strykersville average
How we know this about Strykersville
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 Strykersville’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 Strykersville
When does frost risk typically end in Strykersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Strykersville typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Strykersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Strykersville typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Strykersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Strykersville sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 9, about 143 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Strykersville?
The federal record around Strykersville shows 193 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (80), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Strykersville?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Strykersville's scale — its 5b band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Strykersville'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 Strykersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Strykersville's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,818 acres it covers and 193 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Strykersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Strykersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 23 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 193 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Strykersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Strykersville's boundary and the 2,818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Strykersville's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Strykersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Strykersville's 2,818 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wyoming County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wyoming County
- The growing challenges every New York grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New York
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Wyoming County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Strykersville's 2,818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Strykersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,818 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Strykersville-wide figureread your own land →
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