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 forecastInside the line, each band of elevation is painted on its own date.
Around Cape Hatteras National Seashore Nearly all of the seashore is in Dare County, which is still green today. Hyde County, to the west, is on the same day.By elevation The seashore runs from about -3 to 5 feet. It turns together: there isn’t enough relief here for the color to come down in stages.
0–1,000 ftStill greenpeak Nov 736%
-1,000–0 ftStill greenpeak Nov 764%
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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 4 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.
Friday 6 November to Saturday 7 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
0–1,000 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 7
-1,000–0 ftPeak colorpeak Nov 7
What turns
bald cypress, blackgum, red maple, sweetgum, water oak
What turns, and when
bald cypress17%
blackgum17%
red maple17%
sweetgum17%
water oak17%
willow oak8%
Also named across North Carolina, outside what the canopy read measures here: Tulip Poplar, Sourwood, Hickory, White Oak.
Sourwoods turn deep crimson before anything else, tulip poplars go clear gold, hickories fade to bronze, and the layered ridgelines of the Blue Ridge create that famous smoky depth of warm color.
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
