Burdett, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Burdett, 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 Burdett 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 Burdett — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Burdett — the short answer
Burdett, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 166 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 166 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 6b is Burdett's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burdett's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burdett
Each reading below is measured for Burdett itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurdett runs about 203 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBurdett sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Burdett is in
Burdett sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Burdett's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pawnee County.
What Grows in Burdett
Every plant below cleared Burdett's own zone 6b and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burdett?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Burdett
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burdett. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GOLDEN VALLEY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- GOLDEN VALLEY - BURDETTUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- SHANK BROS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- USD #496-PAWNEE HEIGHTS WEST EUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- JOE'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- SMITH, DEANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- 21S 20W 28CDD 01Nitrate · 1700 ft
- DELANEY IMP CO INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- 22S 20W 04BBC 01Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- 21S 20W 20BAD 01Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 21S 20W 15DAD 01Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- 21S 21W 36ABB 01Nitrate · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burdett'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 Burdett.
Total Sites
89
within ~10 miles of Burdett
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burdett
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burdett
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burdett, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 74 sites within ~10 miles of Burdett. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Burdett
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 Burdett average
Your land is one point inside Burdett
Everything above resolves to Burdett as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 166 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 city 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 Burdett Average
Burdett Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Burdett
- ●One soil character for all of Burdett
- ●Frost dates read at Burdett's scale: Apr 8 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burdett's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burdett
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burdett, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burdett averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burdett — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Burdett average
How we know this about Burdett
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Burdett’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Burdett
When does frost risk typically end in Burdett?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burdett typically lands around Apr 8, 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 Apr 29.
When is the first frost in Burdett?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burdett typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burdett?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burdett sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 14, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burdett?
The federal record around Burdett shows 89 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (74), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Burdett?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burdett's scale — its 6b band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burdett'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 Burdett’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Burdett's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 166 acres it covers and 89 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burdett's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burdett's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Oct 28 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 89 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burdett, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burdett's boundary and the 166 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burdett's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burdett's 166 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pawnee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pawnee County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pawnee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burdett's 166 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burdett you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 166 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Burdett-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across KansasBurdett sits outside our named growing regions, so Kansas as a whole is its closest context here.