When is peak fall color at Osceola National Forest?

Our forecast puts peak color at Osceola National Forest around 18 Nov. The four days to aim for are 17 to 20 Nov. We publish our error rate.

Osceola National Forest Fall Foliage: 2026 Peak Color Forecast

Q: What trees turn color at Osceola National Forest?

Sweetgum, Red Maple, 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.

Peak color, most of the stand18 NovAim for 17 to 20 Nov

In the forest today, Sep 25Still green

bald cypress and blackgum

sweetgum, peak Nov 26

Peak color should arrive around 17 Nov for the bald cypress and blackgum, 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 Osceola National Forest Baker County holds most of the forest and is still green today. Columbia County, to the southwest, is 1 day behind.

That’s 3 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.

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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: bald cypress, blackgum, water oak, sweetgum, red maple

What turns, and when

bald cypress37%
blackgum20%
water oak11%
sweetgum11%
red maple11%
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

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