Bee forage check

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 35.3599, -112.1724

Estimated forage here is better than about 75% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it stands out most in summer (93rd percentile) and lowest in spring (65th). Nearest mapped water: creek, wetland or wet meadow, 0.72 mi NE.

Ranking

Continental US: 14th percentile (spring 35th, summer 33rd, fall 60th)
Arizona: 75th percentile (spring 65th, summer 93rd, fall 81st)
Arizona/New Mexico Mountains: 64th percentile (spring 50th, summer 78th, fall 78th)

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

Season

First forage: Mar 16 — Dandelion, Native wildflowers
Main flow: Apr 16 to Aug 31 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Spotted and diffuse knapweed
Fall flow: Sep 16 to Sep 30 — Rabbitbrush, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Dandelion
Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

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

Things to watch

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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.