Peak color, most of the stand18 NovAim for 17 to 20 Nov
In the forest today, Sep 25Still green
blackgum and water oak
sweetgum, peak Nov 26
Peak color should arrive around 16 Nov for the blackgum and water oak, and around 26 Nov for the sweetgum.
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 forecast
Around Apalachicola National Forest Wakulla County holds most of the forest and is still green today. Liberty County, to the northwest, is 1 day ahead. Leon County, to the northeast, is 1 day ahead.
That’s 2 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.
Tuesday 17 November to Wednesday 18 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
What turns
blackgum, water oak, sweetgum, red maple, bald cypress
What turns, and when
blackgum18%
water oak17%
sweetgum17%
red maple17%
bald cypress12%
willow oak5%
Also named across Florida, outside what the canopy read measures here: Hickory, Dogwood.
Bald cypresses turn russet and copper along the rivers, sweetgums provide scattered red and purple, and the maples in the Panhandle produce pockets of real color.
Across Florida as a whole: Late November through December in the Panhandle, spotty elsewhere.
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
