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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 40.8761, -111.3859

Estimated forage here is better than about 99% of sites in Utah. Spring, summer and fall all rank about the same against other Utah sites. Biggest nearby bee crops: alfalfa (right here, grown 3 of the last 5 years). Nearest mapped water: creek, wetland or wet meadow, less than 0.1 mi away. 1 thing to watch (below).

Ranking

  • Continental US: 78th percentile (spring 58th, summer 82nd, fall 91st)
  • Utah: 99th percentile (spring 97th, summer 97th, fall 93rd)
  • Wasatch and Uinta Mountains: 100th percentile (spring 99th, summer 96th, fall 89th)

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
  • Main flow: Apr 16 to Aug 31 — Clovers: white, alsike and red, Alfalfa, Dandelion
  • Season ends: Oct 31

Bee crops nearby

  • Alfalfa: about 56 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.3 mi S, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 20 acres in a typical year, nearest 0 mi , blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 23 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.3 mi N, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 24 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.4 mi SE, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 30 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.6 mi N, blooms early Jul – early Sep
  • Alfalfa: about 11 acres in a typical year, nearest 0.1 mi N, blooms early Jul – early Sep

What the honey would be made of

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

Things to watch

  • Near a FEMA high-risk flood zone. A mapped high-risk flood zone (A) is within about 300 m. Check FEMA's map for the exact spot.

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.