And last week, the USDA confirmed it by releasing an updated climate zone map for 2023 ... and the mainland U.S. tends to live between zones 5 and 10. In between, every single part of the U.S ...

The 2012 map also showed a boost in warmth over the previous map in 1990. Ohio largely transitioned from Zone 5 to a warmer Zone 6 over that time. But Daly said the 1990 map, which he did not work ...

The USDA Hardiness Zone map does not include average precipitation ... with minimum winter temps ranging from -50 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Northeast: Following the eastern seaboard from Maine ...

The 2012 map — which has 13 10-degree Fahrenheit zones subdivided into ... in the country are generally 5 degrees warmer than they were in the previous USDA zone map, which was released ...

According to the USDA, the map is also based on 30-year averages of the lowest annual winter temperatures at the specific locations, and split into 10-degree and 5-degree zones and integrates data ...

“The 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees warmer than the 2012 map across the contiguous ... One of the major changes in this year’s edition of the hardiness map is the zone boundaries. The USDA states that ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map uses weather data to map average annual extreme minimum ... Each zone is further subdivided into two half zones, a and b, representing 5-degree ranges. Zone 1 starts ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's latest Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows Iowa is warming up, at least a little bit. Updated in November for the first time since 2012, the map, a standard guide ...

Plant labels, catalogs, books and websites all classify plants according to the USDA hardiness zones. On the new map, Chicago is in Zone 6 rather than the slightly colder Zone 5. The new Zone 6 ...

Arizona spans across zones 5 through 10. The new map, created by USDA's Agricultural Research Service and Oregon State University, is based on 30 years of data from 13,412 weather stations ...

However, the USDA noted that while some locations were up to 5 degrees warmer, they did not move into a new half zone. Overall, the 2023 map is generally about one quarter-zone warmer than ...

"The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual ...