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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 38.8616, -117.9326

Estimated forage here is better than about 61% of sites in Nevada. Against other Nevada sites it stands out most in spring (94th percentile) and lowest in fall (26th). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.16 mi NE.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 11th percentile (spring 39th, summer 19th, fall 50th)
  • Nevada: 61st percentile (spring 94th, summer 36th, fall 26th)
  • Central Basin and Range: 53rd percentile (spring 90th, summer 28th, fall 17th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Mar 1 — Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Native wildflowers
  • Main flow: Mar 16 to Jun 30 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Native wildflowers
  • Fall flow: Jul 16 to Sep 15 — Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Rabbitbrush, Dandelion
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

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