Burleson, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Burleson, 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 Burleson lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Burleson — the short answer
Burleson, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 19K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 20
- Johnson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- Johnson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~283
- Johnson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 19K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Johnson County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Burleson's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burleson's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burleson
Each reading below is measured for Burleson itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBurleson runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Johnson County, the closest normal to Burleson) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBurleson sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Burleson is in
Burleson sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Burleson's own centroid rather than borrowed from Johnson County.
What Grows in Burleson
Every plant below cleared Burleson's own zone 8b and its 283-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burleson?
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 Jan 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Burleson
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burleson. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WAL-MART STORESBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- NATIONAL TIRE & BATTERY #8767Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 220Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BURLESON ISD TRANSPORTATION DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- MURPHY USA 5627Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- DO IT SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- JERRY SHAWUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- UNITED AVIATION ACCESORIES, INC.Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- TIGER FARMS MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- JOHNS FURNITUREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HEB 16Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- CIRCLE J FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burleson'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 Burleson.
Total Sites
510
within ~10 miles of Burleson
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burleson
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burleson
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burleson, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Burleson — Toxics Release Inventory (59 sites) and PFAS (5 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Burleson
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 Burleson
Everything above resolves to Burleson as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 19K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Johnson County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. 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 Burleson Average
Burleson Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Burleson
- ●One soil character for all of Burleson
- ●Frost dates read at Burleson's scale: Feb 20 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burleson's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burleson
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burleson, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burleson averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burleson — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Burleson average
How we know this about Burleson
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 Johnson County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Burleson
When does frost risk typically end in Burleson?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burleson typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 13.
When is the first frost in Burleson?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burleson typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 283 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burleson?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burleson sees about 283 frost-free days — roughly Feb 20 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 13 to Nov 16, about 248 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burleson?
The federal record around Burleson is a meaningful one — 510 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (353), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.0 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 Burleson?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burleson's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burleson'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 Burleson’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Burleson's own scale — the 18,676 acres it covers and 510 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burleson's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 510 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burleson, the closest Brownfields record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burleson's boundary and the 18,676 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~283-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burleson's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Burleson has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Johnson County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burleson's 18,676 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Johnson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Johnson County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Johnson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burleson's 18,676 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burleson you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 18,676 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.0 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 Burleson-wide figureread your own land →
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