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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 36.8608, -111.4258

Estimated forage here is better than about 12% of sites in Arizona. Against other Arizona sites it ranks highest in summer (34th percentile) and lowest in fall (13th). Expect a dearth in early Mar. Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.12 mi NW.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 1st percentile (spring 14th, summer 4th, fall 18th)
  • Arizona: 12th percentile (spring 24th, summer 34th, fall 13th)
  • Colorado Plateaus: 15th percentile (spring 45th, summer 11th, fall 8th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Feb 16 — Native wildflowers, Dandelion
  • Main flow: Mar 16 to Jun 15 — Native wildflowers, Spring-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red
  • Dearth: Mar 1 to Mar 15
  • Dearth: Jun 16 to Jun 30
  • Fall flow: Aug 1 to Aug 31 — Rabbitbrush
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

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