Stryker, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Stryker, 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 Stryker lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Stryker — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Stryker — the short answer
Stryker, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 573 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 573 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 6a is Stryker's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stryker's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stryker
Each reading below is measured for Stryker itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStryker runs about 198 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
MeasuredStryker sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Stryker is in
Stryker sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stryker's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Williams County is mostly Eastern Corn Belt Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Stryker
Every plant below cleared Stryker's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stryker?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Stryker
Survey cells within 31 miles of Stryker checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 40 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Stryker
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stryker. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PIT STOP (CLOSED)Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- GRIESER REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- STRYKER MAIN STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- METAL FORGE CO *Brownfields · 1800 ft
- SHORT STOP OIL, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- SAUDER MANUFACTURING CO STRYKER PLANTBrownfields · 2600 ft
- SAUDER MANUFACTURING CO STRYKER PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2600 ft
- STRYKER STEEL TUBE LLCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- STRYDEL INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- STRYKER PEAKING STATIONBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- A SCHULMAN INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- ARCHBOLD VILLAGEPFAS · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stryker'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 Stryker.
Total Sites
271
within ~10 miles of Stryker
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stryker
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stryker
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stryker, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 39 sites within ~10 miles of Stryker. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Stryker
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 Stryker
Everything above resolves to Stryker as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 573 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 Stryker Average
Stryker Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Stryker
- ●One soil character for all of Stryker
- ●Frost dates read at Stryker's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stryker's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stryker
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stryker, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stryker averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stryker — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Stryker average
How we know this about Stryker
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 Stryker’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 Stryker
When does frost risk typically end in Stryker?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stryker typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Stryker?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stryker typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stryker?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stryker sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 15, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stryker?
The federal record around Stryker is a meaningful one — 271 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (122), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Stryker?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stryker's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stryker'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 Stryker’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Stryker's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 573 acres it covers and 271 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stryker's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stryker's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 29 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 271 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stryker, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stryker's boundary and the 573 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Stryker sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Stryker checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Stryker's 573 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Williams County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Williams County
- The growing challenges every Ohio grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Ohio
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Williams County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stryker's 573 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stryker you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 573 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Stryker-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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