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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 37.4802, -113.3084

Estimated forage here is better than about 84% of sites in Utah. Against other Utah sites it stands out most in spring (96th percentile) and lowest in fall (58th). Biggest nearby bee crops: alfalfa (nearest 0.2 mi S, grown 2 of the last 5 years); apricots (nearest 0.6 mi S); corn (nearest 3.1 mi E, grown 1 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away. 2 things to watch (below).

Ranking

  • Continental US: 42nd percentile (spring 50th, summer 60th, fall 67th)
  • Utah: 84th percentile (spring 96th, summer 75th, fall 58th)
  • Central Basin and Range: 90th percentile (spring 95th, summer 89th, fall 38th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Mar 1 — Dandelion, Weedy mustards
  • Main flow: Apr 1 to Aug 31 — Alfalfa, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion
  • Season ends: Oct 31

Bee crops nearby

  • Alfalfa: about 68 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.2 mi S, blooms late Jun – early Aug
  • Alfalfa: about 50 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.5 mi E, blooms late Jun – early Aug
  • Alfalfa: about 32 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.7 mi SE, blooms late Jun – early Aug
  • Alfalfa: about 72 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.2 mi E, blooms late Jun – early Aug
  • Alfalfa: about 17 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.8 mi E, blooms late Jun – early Aug
  • Apricots: about 2 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.6 mi S, blooms early Apr – late Apr

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Alfalfa, Weedy mustards; extra light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Alfalfa, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Summer-flowering shrubs; extra light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Asters, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush; light amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Alfalfa, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Spotted and diffuse knapweed; extra light amber

Things to watch

  • Bee crops nearby that are often sprayed. Apricots: insecticides used on about 76% of surveyed US acres (2025). Figures are from USDA's Agricultural Chemical Use Survey, matched by crop type from the crop map. The survey counts any insecticide use in the crop year (not seed treatments) and doesn't say when; ask nearby growers about spray timing.
  • Near a FEMA high-risk flood zone. A mapped high-risk flood zone (A) is within about 300 m. Check FEMA's map for the exact spot.

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.