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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 38.0836, -107.0310

Estimated forage here is better than about 26% of sites in Colorado. Against other Colorado sites it stands out most in fall (56th percentile) and lowest in spring (16th). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.3 mi NE.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 22nd percentile (spring 8th, summer 61st, fall 77th)
  • Colorado: 26th percentile (spring 16th, summer 50th, fall 56th)
  • Southern Rockies: 37th percentile (spring 30th, summer 39th, fall 59th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Apr 1 — Willows, Early trees (maple, willow, poplar)
  • Main flow: Jun 1 to Sep 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Snowberry
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Willows, Native wildflowers, Native wildflowers, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Summer-flowering shrubs, Snowberry, Native wildflowers, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Fall wildflowers (goldenrod, aster), Snowberry, Summer-flowering shrubs, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); light amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Summer-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers, Snowberry, Native wildflowers; 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.