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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 39.6298, -105.2494

Estimated forage here is better than about 41% of sites in Colorado. Against other Colorado sites it stands out most in summer (53rd percentile) and lowest in fall (38th). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 31st percentile (spring 34th, summer 63rd, fall 66th)
  • Colorado: 41st percentile (spring 49th, summer 53rd, fall 38th)
  • Southern Rockies: 52nd percentile (spring 84th, summer 43rd, fall 41st)

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

Season

  • First forage: Apr 1 — Dandelion, Native wildflowers, Clovers: white, alsike and red
  • Main flow: May 16 to Aug 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Spring-flowering shrubs
  • Fall flow: Sep 1 to Sep 15 — Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Summer-flowering shrubs, Dandelion
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Summer-flowering shrubs, Spring-flowering shrubs; light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Summer-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Dandelion; light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Summer-flowering shrubs; light amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Summer-flowering shrubs, Dandelion, Clovers: white, alsike and red, 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.