Bee forage check

How good is this spot for honey bees?

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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 40.0871, -105.3709

Estimated forage here is better than about 18% of sites in Colorado. Against other Colorado sites it ranks highest in summer (34th percentile) and lowest in fall (13th). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

Continental US: 16th percentile (spring 20th, summer 51st, fall 48th)
Colorado: 18th percentile (spring 33rd, summer 34th, fall 13th)
Southern Rockies: 25th percentile (spring 58th, summer 26th, fall 18th)

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

Season

First forage: Apr 16 — Native wildflowers, Dandelion, Spring-flowering shrubs
Main flow: May 16 to Aug 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Spring-flowering shrubs, Native wildflowers
Season ends: Oct 15

What the honey would be made of

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