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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 34.3222, -110.2598

Estimated forage here is better than about 67% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it stands out most in summer (85th percentile) and lowest in spring (63rd). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 12th percentile (spring 34th, summer 25th, fall 56th)
  • Arizona: 67th percentile (spring 63rd, summer 85th, fall 78th)
  • Arizona/New Mexico Mountains: 53rd percentile (spring 47th, summer 60th, fall 74th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Mar 1 — Dandelion, Native wildflowers
  • Main flow: Apr 16 to Jul 15 — Spring-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Native wildflowers
  • Fall flow: Aug 1 to Sep 30 — Rabbitbrush, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Spotted and diffuse knapweed
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Spring-flowering shrubs, Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Native wildflowers; light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Rabbitbrush, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Native wildflowers; light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Rabbitbrush, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster); amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers; light 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.