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Bee forage check

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 39.9462, -119.6321

Estimated forage here is better than about 74% of sites in Nevada. Against other Nevada sites it stands out most in spring (88th percentile) and lowest in fall (62nd). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 15th percentile (spring 30th, summer 31st, fall 77th)
  • Nevada: 74th percentile (spring 88th, summer 64th, fall 62nd)
  • Central Basin and Range: 67th percentile (spring 82nd, summer 57th, fall 60th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Feb 16 — Weedy mustards, Dandelion
  • Main flow: Mar 16 to Oct 15 — Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Native wildflowers, Weedy mustards
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Weedy mustards, Native wildflowers, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Dandelion; extra light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Native wildflowers; amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Green/yellow rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush, Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Rabbitbrush; dark amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Spotted and diffuse knapweed, Weedy mustards, Native wildflowers, Green/yellow 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.