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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 32.9174, -112.8906

Estimated forage here is better than about 98% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it stands out most in spring (100th percentile) and lowest in fall (2nd). Biggest nearby bee crops: alfalfa (right here, grown 1 of the last 5 years); corn (nearest 0.2 mi W, grown 1 of the last 5 years); sorghum (nearest 0.4 mi NE, grown 1 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.1 mi SE. 1 thing to watch (below).

Ranking

  • Continental US: 69th percentile (spring 97th, summer 6th, fall 4th)
  • Arizona: 98th percentile (spring 100th, summer 45th, fall 2nd)
  • Sonoran Basin and Range: 95th percentile (spring 99th, summer 85th, fall 8th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Jan 1 — Dandelion, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard)
  • Main flow: Apr 1 to May 31 — Alfalfa
  • Season ends: Jun 30

Bee crops nearby

  • Alfalfa: about 10,417 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.3 mi N, blooms early Apr – late May
  • Alfalfa: about 3,844 acres in a typical year, nearest 0 mi , blooms early Apr – late May
  • Alfalfa: about 362 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.3 mi S, blooms early Apr – late May
  • Corn: about 37 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.2 mi W, blooms late Apr – late Jun
  • Corn: about 118 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.7 mi N, blooms late Apr – late Jun
  • Corn: about 25 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.3 mi N, blooms late Apr – late Jun

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Alfalfa, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); white
  • Summer honey (July and August): Garden flowers, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard), Rabbitbrush, Dandelion; light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Rabbitbrush, Garden flowers; dark amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Alfalfa, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); white

Things to watch

  • Near a FEMA high-risk flood zone. A mapped high-risk flood zone (A, AO) is within about 300 m. Check FEMA's map for the exact spot.

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.