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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 40.3917, -111.5907

Estimated forage here is better than about 87% of sites in Utah. Against other Utah sites it stands out most in spring (94th percentile) and lowest in fall (51st). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 50th percentile (spring 46th, summer 71st, fall 63rd)
  • Utah: 87th percentile (spring 94th, summer 86th, fall 51st)
  • Wasatch and Uinta Mountains: 77th percentile (spring 96th, summer 63rd, fall 30th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Apr 1 — Dandelion, Willows
  • Main flow: May 16 to Jul 31 — Snowberry, Summer-flowering shrubs, Spring-flowering shrubs
  • Season ends: Oct 15

What the honey would be made of

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