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.
That’s 2 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Plan this tripIf you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Sunday 29 November to Monday 30 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- What turns
- willow, red-osier dogwood
What turns, and when
- willow75%
- red-osier dogwood25%
Also named across Florida, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sweetgum, Red Maple, Bald Cypress, Hickory.
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