Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
Still greenStartingNearly peakPeakPast peakNo fall canopy we forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around William B. Bankhead National Forest Winston County holds most of the forest and is still green today. Lawrence County, to the north, is 2 days ahead.By elevation The forest runs from about 625 to 953 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 898%
SepOctNov
Height off 3DEP inside the forest’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the forest stands in it.
That’s 5 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Saturday 7 November to Sunday 8 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
What turns
white oak, northern red oak, red maple, shagbark hickory, tulip poplar
What turns, and when
white oak30%
northern red oak24%
red maple20%
shagbark hickory12%
tulip poplar4%
blackgum4%
Also named across Alabama, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sweetgum.
Sweetgums produce a kaleidoscope of purple, red, and orange on individual trees, while hickories and oaks turn the ridges of the Appalachian foothills gold and bronze.
This forecast is built from the species that stand here, their elevation and this September’s weather, and corrected in season by cameras, foresters and our own crew. We score it here against 7 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 13 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made
