Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
Weather Wind to 48 mph Friday. Color may come down before it turns.
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 Assateague Island National Seashore Accomack County holds most of the seashore and is still green today. Worcester County, to the northwest, is 3 days ahead.By elevation The seashore runs from about -2 to 6 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 355%
-1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Nov 345%
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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 3 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.
Monday 2 November to Tuesday 3 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 3
-1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 3
What turns
blackgum, red maple, sweetgum, water oak, bald cypress
What turns, and when
blackgum17%
red maple17%
sweetgum17%
water oak17%
bald cypress16%
willow oak8%
Also named across Maryland, outside what the canopy read measures here: Tulip Poplar, White Oak, Hickory.
Western Maryland's Allegheny ridges turn gold and russet with oaks and hickories while sweetgums in the Piedmont produce vivid purple and red.
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
