USDA Hardiness Zone 6
USDA Zone 6
Fruit bushes, berry plants and trees rated for zone 6, where the coldest night of the year averages -10°F to 0°F.
- -10°F to 0°Faverage coldest night
- 77plants for this zone
- 6a and 6bthe two half zones
Konza Prairie in the Flint Hills, Kansas. Photo: Joanna Gilkeson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Zone 6a, -10°F to -5°F
- Zone 6b, -5°F to 0°F
This is not the official USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. We drew it from the 2023 USDA and Oregon State University zone data and smoothed it to fit the page. Look up your exact zone by ZIP code on the USDA map.
About zone 6
- Coldest night of the year
- -10°F to 0°F on average
- Where it is
- Nearly all of Ohio, most of Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, more than half of Illinois and Utah, and about half of Idaho, Michigan, Oregon and Nevada.
- Cities and towns in zone 6
- Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Denver, Omaha, Milwaukee and Buffalo.
- In our nursery
- 77 plants rated for zone 6 winters
A zone only tells you how cold winter gets. It says nothing about summer heat, rain, soil or frost dates, so check each plant's page for the rest.
