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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 46.1568, -123.6562

Estimated forage here is better than about 88% of sites in Oregon. Against other Oregon sites it stands out most in spring (90th percentile) and lowest in fall (18th). Nearest mapped water: creek, wetland or wet meadow, less than 0.1 mi away.

Ranking

  • Continental US: 97th percentile (spring 99th, summer 68th, fall 13th)
  • Oregon: 88th percentile (spring 90th, summer 58th, fall 18th)
  • Coast Range: 56th percentile (spring 65th, summer 53rd, fall 77th)

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

Season

  • First forage: Feb 1 — Dandelion, Willows, Early trees (maple, willow, poplar)
  • Main flow: Mar 1 to Jun 15 — Summer-flowering shrubs, Clovers: white, alsike and red, Maples
  • Season ends: Aug 31

What the honey would be made of

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