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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 39.9587, -105.5856

Estimated forage here is better than about 63% of sites in Colorado. Against other Colorado sites it stands out most in summer (77th percentile) and lowest in spring (31st). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.12 mi S.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 42nd percentile (spring 18th, summer 74th, fall 76th)
  • Colorado: 63rd percentile (spring 31st, summer 77th, fall 55th)
  • Southern Rockies: 68th percentile (spring 55th, summer 71st, fall 58th)

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
  • Main flow: Jun 1 to Sep 15 — Huckleberries, Snowberry, Willows
  • Season ends: Oct 31

What the honey would be made of

  • Spring honey (March to June): Willows, Huckleberries, Native wildflowers, Kinnikinnick; dark amber
  • Summer honey (July and August): Huckleberries, Snowberry, Willows, Fireweed; light amber
  • Fall honey (September to November): Fireweed, Snowberry, Huckleberries, Native wildflowers; water white
  • Whole season (March to November): Huckleberries, Willows, Snowberry, Fireweed; 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.