National Seashore·Florida, Mississippi·82,095 acres
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Forecast issued 25 Sep, 5:21pm ET
Peak color15 NovAim for 14 to 17 Nov
In the seashore today, Sep 25Still green
Higher ground turns first, so the slopes above the road lead the valley by a few days.
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 Gulf Islands National Seashore Santa Rosa County holds most of the seashore and is still green today. Escambia County, to the northeast, is 1 day behind. Jackson County, to the west, is 2 days behind.By elevation The seashore runs from about -1 to 2 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 1538%
-1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Nov 1562%
SepOctNov
Height off 3DEP inside the seashore’s own boundary; each band carries the date our model gives that elevation, corrections and all. The percentage is how much of the seashore stands in it.
That’s 1 day 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 14 November to Sunday 15 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 15
-1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 15
What turns
water oak, blackgum, sweetgum, red maple, white oak
What turns, and when
water oak27%
blackgum20%
sweetgum20%
red maple12%
white oak12%
sassafras5%
Also named across Florida, outside what the canopy read measures here: Bald Cypress, 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.
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
