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How good is this spot for honey bees?

Enter an address or tap the map. You'll see which bee plants and crops are within flight range (about 3.7 miles, with nearer land counting more), when the honey flow comes and when there's a dearth, nearby water, a few things worth checking, and how the spot ranks against random sites in your state and across the country.

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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 32.0329, -111.9518

Estimated forage here is better than about 22% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it ranks highest in fall (41st percentile) and lowest in summer (18th). Expect a dearth from late Apr to late Oct. Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 3rd percentile (spring 11th, summer 1st, fall 32nd)
  • Arizona: 22nd percentile (spring 19th, summer 18th, fall 41st)
  • Sonoran Basin and Range: 53rd percentile (spring 49th, summer 54th, fall 68th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Jan 1 — Native wildflowers, Dandelion, Spring-flowering shrubs
  • Main flow: Feb 1 to Apr 15 — Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs
  • Dearth: Apr 16 to Oct 31
  • Fall flow: May 1 to Aug 15 — Native wildflowers, Rabbitbrush
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion; light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Rabbitbrush, Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Garden flowers; dark amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Rabbitbrush; dark amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Rabbitbrush, Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red; amber

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.