Current and future plant hardiness zones for the conterminous United States
dataset
posted on 2025-01-22, 00:08 authored by Brice B. Hanberry, Jacob S. FraserThis data publication includes raster digital files containing plant hardiness zones of current climate (1981–2010) and future climates (2070–2099; CanESM2, GFDL-ESM2G, and HadGEM2-ES general circulation models at representative concentration pathway 8.5) in the conterminous United States. Plant hardiness zones represent the coldest day of the year, averaged over 30 years. For the plant hardiness zones, we identified the lowest daily minimum temperature of the winter-centric year (July–June) and then averaged each year’s extreme daily minimum during 30 years. We assigned 5.6 °Celsius (°C) zones and 2.8 °C half zones.
Visualization of plant hardiness zones of current climate (1981–2010) and future climates (2070–2099) in the United States.
Original metadata date was 08/09/2019. Minor metadata updates were made on 08/21/2019.
Visualization of plant hardiness zones of current climate (1981–2010) and future climates (2070–2099) in the United States.
Original metadata date was 08/09/2019. Minor metadata updates were made on 08/21/2019.
Funding
USDA-FS
History
Data contact name
Brice HanberryData contact email
brice.hanberry@usda.govPublisher
Forest Service Research Data ArchiveUse limitations
These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation: Hanberry, Brice B.; Fraser, Jacob S. 2019. Current and future plant hardiness zones for the conterminous United States. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0035Temporal Extent Start Date
1981-01-01Temporal Extent End Date
2099-12-31Theme
- Not specified
Geographic Coverage
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conterminous United StatesISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
- farming
- environment
- geoscientificInformation
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
Forestry, Wildland ManagementOMB Bureau Code
- 005:96 - Forest Service
OMB Program Code
- 005:059 - Management Activities
Pending citation
- No
Public Access Level
- Public
