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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 35.9479, -110.1008

Estimated forage here is better than about 41% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it stands out most in fall (74th percentile) and lowest in spring (32nd). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 6th percentile (spring 18th, summer 15th, fall 53rd)
  • Arizona: 41st percentile (spring 32nd, summer 66th, fall 74th)
  • Arizona/New Mexico Plateau: 20th percentile (spring 24th, summer 29th, fall 28th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Mar 16 — Native wildflowers, Dandelion, Weedy mustards
  • Main flow: Apr 16 to Jul 15 — Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Summer-flowering shrubs
  • Fall flow: Aug 1 to Oct 31 — Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Dandelion, Native wildflowers; light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Native wildflowers, Rabbitbrush, Native wildflowers; amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Asters; dark amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rabbitbrush; 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.