USDA Announces 2023 Updates to the Plant Hardiness Zone Maps
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
The new USDA plant hardiness zone maps have been updated for 2023 and were released this week. These updates occur approximately every 10 years, with the last maps released in 2012. The following press release from the USDA provides explanation for how the new zones are calculated and the 30-year timespan of winter minimum temperatures used to calculate the new zones.