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 forecast
Around Missouri National Recreational River Cedar County holds most of the river and is starting to turn today. Clay County, to the northeast, is on the same day.
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.
Wednesday 14 October to Thursday 15 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
What turns
northern red oak, white oak, red maple, shagbark hickory, silver maple
What turns, and when
northern red oak31%
white oak31%
red maple19%
shagbark hickory15%
silver maple3%
Also named across Nebraska, outside what the canopy read measures here: Cottonwood, Bur Oak, Hackberry, Green Ash.
Cottonwoods along the Platte and Niobrara rivers turn gold, and the Pine Ridge in the northwest produces a surprising mix of ponderosa pine and hardwood color.
Across Nebraska as a whole: Early-to-mid October in the north, late October along the Platte and Missouri rivers.
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. Out here we score it against NASA's satellite record of when the canopy shuts down, read inside each unit’s own boundary: two dates in three land within 12 days of it. How this map is made
