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How good is this spot for honey bees?

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The colors are the national forage map: every square kilometer of the lower 48, scored the same way. See the honey flow for your state and town, the best and worst spots we found, or how the scoring works.

Forage report for 30.7188, -97.4392

Estimated forage here is better than about 82% of sites in Texas. Against other Texas sites it stands out most in spring (95th percentile) and lowest in fall (18th). Biggest nearby bee crops: corn (nearest 0.3 mi E); cotton (nearest 0.4 mi NE, grown 1 of the last 5 years); sorghum (nearest 0.4 mi E, grown 4 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away. 1 thing to watch (below).

Ranking

  • Continental US: 74th percentile (spring 94th, summer 27th, fall 15th)
  • Texas: 82nd percentile (spring 95th, summer 61st, fall 18th)
  • Texas Blackland Prairies: 52nd percentile (spring 81st, summer 28th, fall 30th)

Percentile among 3,000 random land points across Texas, scored the same way; land in general, not beekeepers' yards.

Season

  • First forage: Jan 16 — Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red
  • Main flow: May 1 to May 31 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), Dandelion
  • Season ends: Aug 15

Bee crops nearby

  • Corn: about 4,702 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.5 mi NW, blooms late Apr – late May
  • Corn: about 2,785 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.3 mi E, blooms late Apr – late May
  • Corn: about 454 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.4 mi S, blooms late Apr – late May
  • Corn: about 5,386 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.1 mi S, blooms late Apr – late May
  • Corn: about 861 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.3 mi SW, blooms late Apr – late May
  • Corn: about 112 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.7 mi E, blooms late Apr – late May

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), Cotton; extra light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Cotton, Garden flowers, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion; extra light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Garden flowers, Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster); amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Clovers: white, alsike and red, Cotton, Dandelion, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); extra light amber

Things to watch

  • Bee crops nearby that are often sprayed. Cotton: insecticides used on about 39% of surveyed US acres (2025). Figures are from USDA's Agricultural Chemical Use Survey, matched by crop type from the crop map. The survey counts any insecticide use in the crop year (not seed treatments) and doesn't say when; ask nearby growers about spray timing.
  • Flood map not checked. FEMA's flood map service didn't answer. Check it directly.

An estimate from public maps (USDA crop maps 2021-2025 averaged, LANDFIRE vegetation), not a survey of the ground. Maps can't see garden plantings, understory density, other beekeepers' hives, or this year's weather. Honey composition is a nectar-source estimate, not a pollen analysis. Benchmark 2026.5. How this works.