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The data, reflected in the updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map in November, helps gardeners, farmers, insurers and other officials decide what to plant, how much to charge farmers for crop insurance ...
The USDA divides the United States into seven planting regions, known as hardiness zones, which were most recently updated in 2023.The maps below show these planting regions.
Plant zones across US and Florida. As with the 2012 map, the new version has 13 zones across the United States and its territories. Each zone is broken into half zones, designated as “A” and ...
INDIANA, USA — New Plant Hardiness Zone maps updated by the US Department of Agriculture released this week show a drastically reduced Zone 5 throughout Indiana, while Zone 7 makes an appearance in ...
The map of the US is divided into zones, separated by ten degrees. It starts with 1a (Alaska) and goes all the way up to 13b (Puerto Rico), and the mainland U.S. tends to live between zones 5 and 10.
The 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map, which was generated based on weather data gathered from 1991 to 2020, indicates that about half the United States moved into a warmer zone. “Overall, the ...
As with the 2012 map, the new version has 13 zones across the United States and its territories. Each zone is broken into half zones, designated as “A” and “B.” For example, zone 7 is ...
Plant hardiness zone map an important, ... “Overall, the 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees warmer than the 2012 map across the conterminous United States,” Daly said.
The USDA's new Plant Hardiness Zone Map pushes about half of the country, ... The latest version uses temperature readings from 1991 through 2020 at 13,412 weather stations across the United States.
The new map reflects that many areas have become warmer since 1990, when the previous USDA hardiness zone map was published. Significant portions of many states have shifted a least one full zone ...
Plant hardiness zones in Wisconsin range from 6a, which denotes an average minimum temperature of -5 to -10 degrees, to 3b, which is an average minimum of -30 to -35 degrees.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a Plant Hardiness Zone Map that divides the U.S. into 13 different zones, which helps gardeners choose plants that can survive in their respective ...