Burlington, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Burlington, 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 Burlington 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 Burlington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Burlington — the short answer
Burlington, Ohio: USDA zone 7a, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 892 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 892 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 7a is Burlington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burlington's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burlington
Each reading below is measured for Burlington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurlington runs about 219 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
MeasuredBurlington sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Burlington is in
Burlington sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Burlington's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lawrence County.
What Grows in Burlington
Every plant below cleared Burlington's own zone 7a and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burlington?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 6 — 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 Burlington
Survey cells within 31 miles of Burlington checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 107 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Burlington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burlington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SAM'S CLUB #8152Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SPEEDWAY 9284Brownfields · 1300 ft
- LOWES #455Brownfields · 1400 ft
- SPEEDWAY#9284Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- GAS-N-GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MURPHY EXPRESS #8676Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FLUID COMPONENT SERVICES INCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- LJ NAVY TRUCKING CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- KEVIN'S AUTO LLCBrownfields · 2500 ft
- THACKER'S TRUCK REPAIRBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- BURLINGTON CENTRAL OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- THACKERS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burlington'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 Burlington.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burlington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burlington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burlington, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Burlington. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Burlington
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 Burlington average
Your land is one point inside Burlington
Everything above resolves to Burlington as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 892 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 Burlington Average
Burlington Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Burlington
- ●One soil character for all of Burlington
- ●Frost dates read at Burlington's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burlington's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burlington
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burlington, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burlington averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burlington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Burlington average
How we know this about Burlington
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 Burlington’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 Burlington
When does frost risk typically end in Burlington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burlington 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 Burlington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burlington typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burlington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burlington sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 23, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burlington?
The federal record around Burlington is a meaningful one — 937 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (553), 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 Burlington?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burlington's scale — its 7a band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burlington'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 Burlington’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Burlington's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 892 acres it covers and 937 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burlington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burlington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 6 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 937 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burlington, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burlington's boundary and the 892 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burlington's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Burlington 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 Burlington's 892 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lawrence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lawrence 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 Lawrence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burlington's 892 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burlington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 892 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 Burlington-wide figureread your own land →