Sometimes called “growing zones” or “gardening zones,” USDA plant hardiness zones refer to areas of a map developed by the ...

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 ...

New hazard designations increase the number of homes that must comply with wildfire building codes during reconstruction.

Here's which planting region Wisconsin falls in and how to look up the plant hardiness in your zip code. Trouble seeing the map? Click here to view the planting zones for the North Central U.S ...

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

Tennessee has a variety of plant hardiness zones, which means a variety of growing times in the state. Daylight saving time has brought Tennessee even more hours of sunshine, which means spring is ...

The expanded hazard zones ... grow all that much from decade to decade. Unlike an insurance company’s risk assessment of a house in the woods, which might take into account its composite wood sidings ...

the CTA slow zone maps show. One area that has slowed notably is the Yellow Line, where speeds were restricted after a 2023 crash between a train and a snow plow on the tracks and where 81% of ...