Burleigh, New Jersey, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Burleigh, 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 Burleigh 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 Burleigh — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Burleigh — the short answer
Burleigh, New Jersey: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 975 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 975 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 7b is Burleigh's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burleigh's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burleigh
Each reading below is measured for Burleigh itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurleigh runs about 246 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
MeasuredBurleigh sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Burleigh is in
Burleigh sits in the Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Burleigh's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cape May County.
What Grows in Burleigh
Every plant below cleared Burleigh's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Jersey profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burleigh?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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.
Documented around Burleigh
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Burleigh, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Burleigh
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burleigh. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LIGHTHOUSE CHURCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- 1252 ROUTE 9 SOUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- AVALON STATE POLICE BARRACKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SWAINTON OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DAN'S AUTO REPAIR (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- FORMER DAN'S AUTO REPAIR SERVICESuperfund · 1500 ft
- HOME DEPOT USA HD0943Brownfields · 2000 ft
- HOME DEPOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- ALBERT E MORELLIUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- 090334-- MW-1 Transfer StationNitrate · 2400 ft
- CMCMUA TRANSFER STATIONBrownfields · 2500 ft
- CMCMUA SOLID WASTE TRANSFER STATUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burleigh'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 Burleigh.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burleigh
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burleigh
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burleigh, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Burleigh — PFAS (8 sites) and Superfund (9 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Burleigh
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 Burleigh average
Your land is one point inside Burleigh
Everything above resolves to Burleigh as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 975 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 Burleigh Average
Burleigh Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Burleigh
- ●One soil character for all of Burleigh
- ●Frost dates read at Burleigh's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burleigh's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burleigh
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burleigh, New Jersey — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burleigh averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burleigh — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Burleigh average
How we know this about Burleigh
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 Burleigh’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 Burleigh
When does frost risk typically end in Burleigh?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burleigh typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Burleigh?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burleigh typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burleigh?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burleigh sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 7, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burleigh?
The federal record around Burleigh is a meaningful one — 563 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (335), 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 Burleigh?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burleigh's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burleigh'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 Burleigh’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Burleigh's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 975 acres it covers and 563 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burleigh's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burleigh's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 21 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 563 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burleigh, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burleigh's boundary and the 975 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burleigh's own centroid, the Atlantic Coastal Pine BarrensUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Burleighlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burleigh's 975 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cape May County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cape May County
- The growing challenges every New Jersey grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Jersey
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Cape May County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burleigh's 975 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burleigh you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 975 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 Burleigh-wide figureread your own land →