Higher ground turns first, so the slopes above the road lead the valley by a few days.
Weather Wind to 45 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 forecast
Around Fire Island National Seashore Nearly all of the seashore is in Suffolk County, which is still green today.By elevation The seashore runs from about 0 to 4 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Oct 2396%
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.
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Thursday 22 October to Friday 23 October
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
Where to drive
Palisades Interstate Parkway, about 56 miles · Route 169, about 95 miles · Route 97 (Hawk's Nest), about 104 miles
What turns
red maple, sweetgum, blackgum, water oak, bald cypress
What turns, and when
red maple18%
sweetgum16%
blackgum16%
water oak16%
bald cypress16%
river birch9%
Also named across New York, outside what the canopy read measures here: Sugar Maple, American Beech, Yellow Birch, Red Oak.
The Adirondacks produce color as vivid as anywhere in New England, with sugar maples blazing orange across mountainsides of birch gold and beech bronze, all reflected in thousands of lakes.
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
