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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 40.8182, -111.4157

Estimated forage here is better than about 85% of sites in Utah. Spring, summer and fall all rank about the same against other Utah sites. Biggest nearby bee crops: alfalfa (nearest 0.5 mi S, grown 3 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: mapped stream or canal (may be dry in late summer), 0.25 mi NW.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 44th percentile (spring 36th, summer 68th, fall 82nd)
  • Utah: 85th percentile (spring 86th, summer 83rd, fall 85th)
  • Wasatch and Uinta Mountains: 69th percentile (spring 85th, summer 55th, fall 78th)

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, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Arrowleaf balsamroot
  • Main flow: May 16 to Sep 15 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Summer-flowering shrubs, Spotted and diffuse knapweed
  • Season ends: Oct 31

Bee crops nearby

  • Alfalfa: about 44 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.1 mi N, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 29 acres in a typical year, nearest 1 mi E, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 44 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.4 mi NE, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 8 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.7 mi N, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 5 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.5 mi S, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 12 acres in a typical year, nearest 1.2 mi SW, blooms early Jul – early Sep

What the honey would be made of

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