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 4 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.
Monday 16 November to Tuesday 17 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
- blackgum17%
- water oak17%
- sweetgum17%
- red maple17%
- bald cypress17%
- willow oak8%
Also named across Mississippi, outside what the canopy read measures here: Hickory, Tulip Poplar.
Sweetgums provide the best color in Mississippi, turning vivid red and purple, while bald cypresses go copper along the rivers and hickories fade to gold in the uplands.
Across Mississippi as a whole: Late October in the northeast hills, mid-November 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