AUSTIN (KXAN) — The USDA recently updated their Plant Hardiness Zone Maps (PHZM) to reflect the latest 30-year averages published by the National Weather Service.

For example, Seattle, Washington, and the city of Austin, Texas, are both in the USDA hardiness zone 9a because the map is a measure of the coldest temperature a plant can handle.

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The USDA has recently released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map for 2023 which shows the lowest average winter temperatures across the nation.

Many areas of the country are now in a warmer USDA zone than they were on the old map, but most of Central Texas remains unchanged. We're still Zone 8b, which means that our average lowest winter ...

Thirty years later in 1990, the USDA released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This map took data from close to 8,000 weather stations and used data from the period from 1974 to 1986.

Zone 9a and 9b – Found along the Gulf Coast, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley. Zone 10a – Found in the southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville. Find your zone by zip code.

The USDA announced Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 new maps for plant hardiness zones, a key to determine which plants can survive in what parts of the country. ... Nebraska and Texas ...

Zone 8a and 8b – Include Central Texas, parts of North Texas, and much of East Texas. Zone 9a and 9b – Found along the Gulf Coast, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley. Zone 10a – Found in ...

The government acknowledged the fact on Jan. 25 with the release of its updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. ... a factor in Texas that is just as relevant, if not more so, to a plant’s survival ...

The new Plant Hardiness Zone Map reveals that about half of the country shifted to the next warmer half zone, when compared to the previous map, compiled in 2012.

In some cases -- Ohio, Nebraska and Texas -- nearly the entire states have been updated to warmer zones. The map also creates two new zones: 12, for climates with average lows of 50 to 60 degrees ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map, updating this valuable tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 2012.