Just a thought maybe you need this.

Thanks to all members im just adding them all here as you guys post them.

http://arborday.org/media/zones.cfm
http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/ 
http://www.plantmaps.com/
https://www.garden.org/zipzone/

After this recurrent polar vortex winter, are they going to change the maps back the way they used to be?  My zone would drop to 5 from 6 if it was just based on this winter (yes I know they use averages over time)

http://www.plantmaps.com/

I like this one. You can just put in your zip code.

See I keep saying North Jersey (the best place to live in the world except maybe for Eastern Long Island) has the same hardiness zone as Georgia. .... but without all of the... (discuss.....) : )

I'm with WillC on this one, I escaped NJ....

I escaped nj as well. Lived in freehold for the first few years of my life, only been back there once since then. I imagine there's somewhere nice in nj though.

That said, haven't a lot of heirloom figs been found in NJ?  Perhaps you should drive through move often?  :>)

According to this I'm right on the line between 6 and 7. I put in my zip to see if it would give me a clearer answer, but no, it came up 6-7. I keep seeing people giving zones as a number letter combination (6a or 6b) but I haven't seen a chart for that. The NWS takes temps for us at an airport 25 miles away and 100 ft. higher elevation. Before my outside thermometer got broke it consistently showed us 5 to 10 degrees lower than what they were calling. This winter there were several times when they were calling -5... and I didn't want to know what it actually was.

I had put my old fig in ground in the fall... as a reward for a productive summer. It was well wrapped, it's up against a South facing wall outside a room with underfloor heat with no insulation on the footer (there will be a greenhouse against that wall some year). I checked on it the other day and last years new growth is all very dead, but the older wood that made it through last winter looks like it may still be alive up to 16-18 inches. Fingers crossed!

Greysmith,

Here try this one, it has the subzones on it.  http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/

WillisC, that link has been my favorite since someone told me about it on garden web.  Wow!  I am amazed that most zone maps lump everyone in a 50 mile area into one zone, when within that zone are a few microclimates.  They don't take into account altitude within a geographical area.  I love that map!  You can find the closest street on it, and determine your actual zone, which is very helpful in determining what will grow best where you are.  Our property is so weird, the same plant flowers and bears fruit a month earlier at the top of our hill in the front yard, than the same plant at the bottom, so even that knowledge is helpful in placing plants.

Suzi

So far I like garden.org in the list above the best.

Thanks, looks like I'm 6b.

After using the plant hardiness link and zooming in on the map down to my street it says I'm in 6b and not 6a which is exciting. So that's my favorite one so far

The NWS says it's 39 right now, it was predicting a low of 35... there's ice on the windshield.