Glade, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Glade, 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 Glade 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 Glade — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Glade — the short answer
Glade, Kansas: USDA zone 6a, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 172 acres of city.
- 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 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 172 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 Glade's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Glade's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Glade
Each reading below is measured for Glade itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGlade runs about 192 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
MeasuredGlade 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 Glade is in
Glade sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Glade's own centroid rather than borrowed from Phillips County.
What Grows in Glade
Every plant below cleared Glade's own zone 6a and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Glade?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Glade
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Glade. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHIELDS 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- MORGAN OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- RONS RESTORATION INCBrownfields · 900 ft
- 04S 18W 23DCA 01Nitrate · 1700 ft
- 04S 18W 26BDC 02Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- 04S 18W 26BBC 01Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 04S 18W 26BBC 02Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 04S 18W 26CCA 01Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 04S 18W 26CCD 03Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 04S 18W 26CCD 01Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 04S 18W 26CCD 02Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 04S 18W 26CCC 01Nitrate · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Glade'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 Glade.
Total Sites
107
within ~10 miles of Glade
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Glade
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Glade
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Glade, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of Glade. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Glade
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 Glade
Everything above resolves to Glade as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 172 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 Glade Average
Glade Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Glade
- ●One soil character for all of Glade
- ●Frost dates read at Glade's scale: Apr 14 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Glade's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Glade
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Glade, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Glade averages can't show:
We read public map data around Glade — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Glade average
How we know this about Glade
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 Glade’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 Glade
When does frost risk typically end in Glade?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Glade 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 Glade?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Glade 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 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Glade?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Glade sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 9, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Glade?
The federal record around Glade shows 107 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (48), 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 Glade?
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 Glade's scale — its 6a band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Glade'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 Glade’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Glade's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 172 acres it covers and 107 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Glade's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Glade's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Oct 23 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 107 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Glade, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Glade's boundary and the 172 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Glade's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Glade's 172 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Phillips County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Phillips 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 Phillips County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Glade's 172 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Glade you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 172 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 Glade-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across KansasGlade sits outside our named growing regions, so Kansas as a whole is its closest context here.
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