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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 39.9547, -82.6853

Estimated forage here is better than about 68% of sites in Ohio. Against other Ohio sites it stands out most in fall (81st percentile) and lowest in spring (55th). Biggest nearby bee crops: soybeans (right here, grown 1 of the last 5 years); corn (nearest 1.2 mi SE, grown 2 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 93rd percentile (spring 75th, summer 91st, fall 52nd)
  • Ohio: 68th percentile (spring 55th, summer 60th, fall 81st)
  • Eastern Corn Belt Plains: 45th percentile (spring 82nd, summer 27th, fall 89th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Mar 1 — Dandelion, Early trees (maple, willow, poplar), Clovers: white, alsike and red
  • Main flow: Jun 1 to Aug 15 — Soybeans, Clovers: white, alsike and red
  • Season ends: Sep 30

Bee crops nearby

  • Soybeans: about 156 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.2 mi E, blooms early Jun – late Aug
  • Soybeans: about 420 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.9 mi S, blooms early Jun – late Aug
  • Soybeans: about 146 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.5 mi NE, blooms early Jun – late Aug
  • Soybeans: about 1,531 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.4 mi NW, blooms early Jun – late Aug
  • Soybeans: about 1,100 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.9 mi SE, blooms early Jun – late Aug
  • Soybeans: about 1,466 acres in a typical year, nearest 1 mi E, blooms early Jun – late Aug

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Soybeans, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); light amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Soybeans, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion; extra light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Garden flowers, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); extra light amber
  • Whole season (March to November): Soybeans, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Dandelion, Roadside weeds (clover, dandelion, sweet clover, mustard); extra light amber

Things to watch

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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.