The USDA's new Plant Hardiness Zone Map pushes about half of the country, Harrisburg area included, into a half-zone warmer rating, meaning our odds are increasing of growing once-iffy more ...

The last time the USDA changed the Hardiness Zone map was 2012. Although the changes are subtle, it does indicate that we are experencing warmer temps ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released its updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map uses weather data to map average annual extreme minimum ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was recently updated after more than a decade. It confirms what anyone who’s planted seeds recently already knows.

Zone 1a represents -60 degrees Fahrenheit to -55, Zone 1b represents -55 to -50, and so on. In 2012, Philadelphia was in both Zones 7a and 7b, but the new map has the city solidly in 7b, meaning ...

Credit: USDA On the 2012 map, most of Long Island was in zone 7a, with winter lows of 0 to 5 degrees.. On the updated map, the region is nearly all zone 7b, with winter lows of 5 to 10 degrees.

There are now more parts of San Luis Obispo that fall within moderate, high and very high Fire Hazard Severity Zones.

New plant hardiness map: Many Virginians shift to warmer zones More detail, more accuracy — and we’re again in warmer zones.

In the updated map, Northwest Arkansas is now solidly in zone 7a, and nearly in 7b, while zone 8b – which previously stopped just south of the Arkansas-Louisiana border – now extends all the ...

USDA plant hardiness maps, updated for the first time in a decade, show a 2.5-degree Fahrenheit increase in temperatures across the contiguous U.S.

The USDA plant hardiness zones are a guide to help gardeners select plants that can survive outside for many years.

The updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was just released, and it spells some changes for Missouri.