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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 33.8336, -90.8909

Estimated forage here is better than about 100% of sites in Mississippi. Against other Mississippi sites it stands out most in summer (100th percentile) and lowest in fall (2nd). Biggest nearby bee crops: soybeans (nearest 0.1 mi S); corn (nearest 0.2 mi W, grown 2 of the last 5 years); sorghum (nearest 1.7 mi W, grown 1 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.1 mi W. 1 thing to watch (below).

Ranking

  • Continental US: 100th percentile (spring 99th, summer 93rd, fall 1st)
  • Mississippi: 100th percentile (spring 99th, summer 100th, fall 2nd)
  • Mississippi Alluvial Plain: 99th percentile (spring 97th, summer 87th, fall 7th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Apr 16 — Soybeans
  • Main flow: May 1 to Jun 30 — Soybeans
  • Season ends: Jul 15

Bee crops nearby

  • Soybeans: about 12,347 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.1 mi S, blooms early May – early Jul
  • Soybeans: about 11,612 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.2 mi NW, blooms early May – early Jul
  • Corn: about 98 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.2 mi W, blooms late May – late Jun
  • Soybeans: about 1,188 acres in a typical year, nearest 2.2 mi NW, blooms early May – early Jul
  • Corn: about 51 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.7 mi NW, blooms late May – late Jun
  • Corn: about 153 acres in a typical year, nearest 2.5 mi NW, blooms late May – late Jun

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Soybeans
  • Summer honey (July and August): Soybeans
  • Fall honey (September to November): Garden flowers, Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster); amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Soybeans

Things to watch

  • Near a FEMA high-risk flood zone. A mapped high-risk flood zone (A) 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.