INDIANA, USA — Indiana is now mostly a Zone 6 state (both a and b) according to the United States Department of Agriculture's latest plant hardiness zone map. It was updated in November 2023, so this ...

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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 plant hardiness map contains 13 zones, representing 10-degree-F ranges. Each zone is further subdivided into two half zones, a and b, representing 5-degree ranges. Zone 1 starts in Alaska, and ...

Plant hardiness zones have long been a useful guideline for ... the 8,000 that were used for the 2012 map. The maps highlighted 13 different zones around the ... in Indiana (Franklin, Fayette ...

Half the country is now in a slightly warmer hardiness zone than they were a decade ago. These zones show an average of the coldest temperature on the coldest night every year for the past 30 years.

Scott Robeson, geology professor at Indiana University, said the state already has experienced a half zone shift from 6a to 6b. These shifts are calculated using the coldest temperature ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released its new Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the national standard by which gardeners can determine which plants are most likely to survive the coldest ...

About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone in the Agriculture Department’s new “plant hardiness” map, an important guide for gardeners. Climate change may be a factor.

For example, a search for my Virginia Beach ZIP code, 23455, shows me in Zone 8b (15 to 20 degrees at its average coldest), or 5 degrees warmer than Zone 8a (10 to 15 degrees). The 2012 map had me ...

On Nov. 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a revised version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This map is what home gardeners, as well as professional growers, use to determine which ...