Burlingame, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Burlingame, 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 Burlingame lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Burlingame — the short answer
Burlingame, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 566 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 566 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 Burlingame's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burlingame's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burlingame
Each reading below is measured for Burlingame itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurlingame runs about 215 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
MeasuredBurlingame 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 Burlingame is in
Burlingame sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Burlingame's own centroid rather than borrowed from Osage County.
What Grows in Burlingame
Every plant below cleared Burlingame's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burlingame?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Burlingame
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burlingame. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BURLINGAME, CITY OF POWER PLUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- MASTERS MOTOR & OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- CASEY'S GENERAL STORE - #1251Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SANTA FE TRAIL COLLISION CTRBrownfields · 1100 ft
- KRAUS BUS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BURLINGAME TOWN PUMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BURLINGAME COOP ELEVATORUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- EISENBARTH OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- PAULINE FARMERS COOP ELEVATORBrownfields · 1600 ft
- 15S 14E 21CDD 01Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- 15S 14E 21CD 01Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- 15S 15E 06ABB 01Nitrate · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burlingame'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 Burlingame.
Total Sites
83
within ~10 miles of Burlingame
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burlingame
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burlingame
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burlingame, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Burlingame. 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 Burlingame
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 Burlingame average
Your land is one point inside Burlingame
Everything above resolves to Burlingame as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 566 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 Burlingame Average
Burlingame Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Burlingame
- ●One soil character for all of Burlingame
- ●Frost dates read at Burlingame's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burlingame's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burlingame
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burlingame, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burlingame averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burlingame — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Burlingame average
How we know this about Burlingame
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 Burlingame’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 Burlingame
When does frost risk typically end in Burlingame?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burlingame typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Burlingame?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burlingame typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burlingame?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burlingame sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 19, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burlingame?
The federal record around Burlingame is a meaningful one — 83 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (40), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Burlingame?
From about Oct 3 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 Nov 2 (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 Nov 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burlingame's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burlingame'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 Burlingame’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Burlingame's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 566 acres it covers and 83 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burlingame's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burlingame's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 2 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 83 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burlingame, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burlingame's boundary and the 566 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burlingame's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burlingame's 566 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Osage County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Osage 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 Osage County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burlingame's 566 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burlingame you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 566 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Burlingame-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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