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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 36.0984, -110.2197

Estimated forage here is better than about 60% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it stands out most in summer (82nd percentile) and lowest in spring (59th). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.17 mi E.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 10th percentile (spring 31st, summer 23rd, fall 51st)
  • Arizona: 60th percentile (spring 59th, summer 82nd, fall 73rd)
  • Arizona/New Mexico Plateau: 48th percentile (spring 70th, summer 59th, fall 26th)

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, Clovers: white, alsike and red
  • Main flow: Apr 1 to Jul 15 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Native wildflowers
  • Fall flow: Aug 1 to Sep 30 — Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Spotted and diffuse knapweed
  • 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, Dandelion, Summer-flowering shrubs; light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Rabbitbrush, Dandelion; amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs; 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.