Burbank, Washington, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Burbank, 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 Burbank lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Burbank — the short answer
Burbank, Washington: USDA zone 7b, about 230 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~230
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Burbank's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Burbank's 230-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Burbank
Each reading below is measured for Burbank itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBurbank runs about 230 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
MeasuredBurbank 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 Burbank is in
Burbank sits in the Columbia Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Burbank's own centroid rather than borrowed from Walla Walla County.
What Grows in Burbank
Every plant below cleared Burbank's own zone 7b and its 230-day season. Each card opens that plant's Washington profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Burbank?
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 Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Burbank
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Burbank. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FOODMART #0580Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- SUN MART #14Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WALLA WALLA COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 5Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- COLUMBIA SCHOOL DISTRICT 400Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- FRIEND'S CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- US FISH WILDLIFE SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER CONSTRUCTION COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- F.F. & J. STORAGE, LLC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- COLUMBIA BASIN STEEL & IRON INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- SCHNITZER STEELBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- TIDEWATER - PASCOBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- TIDEWATER - PASCOToxics Release Inventory · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Burbank'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 Burbank.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Burbank
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Burbank
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Burbank, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 347 sites within ~10 miles of Burbank. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Burbank
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 Burbank average
Your land is one point inside Burbank
Everything above resolves to Burbank as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Burbank Average
Burbank Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Burbank
- ●One soil character for all of Burbank
- ●Frost dates read at Burbank's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Burbank's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Burbank
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Burbank, Washington — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Burbank averages can't show:
We read public map data around Burbank — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Burbank average
How we know this about Burbank
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 Burbank’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 Burbank
When does frost risk typically end in Burbank?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Burbank typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Burbank?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Burbank typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 230 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Burbank?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Burbank sees about 230 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 21, about 195 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Burbank?
The federal record around Burbank is a meaningful one — 536 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (347), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Burbank?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Burbank's scale — its 7b band and its 230-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Burbank'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 Burbank’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Burbank's own scale — its own ~230-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,996 acres it covers and 536 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Burbank's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Burbank's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 4 and the ~230-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 536 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Burbank, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Burbank's boundary and the 4,996 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~230-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Burbank's own centroid, the Columbia PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Burbank's 4,996 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Walla Walla County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Walla Walla County
- The growing challenges every Washington grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Washington
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Walla Walla County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Burbank's 4,996 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Burbank you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,996 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Burbank-wide figureread your own land →