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 forecast
Around Davy Crockett National Forest Houston County holds most of the forest and is still green today. Trinity County, to the south, is on the same day.
That’s 5 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 16 November to Tuesday 17 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
What turns
bald cypress, water oak, sweetgum, blackgum, red maple
What turns, and when
bald cypress17%
water oak15%
sweetgum15%
blackgum15%
red maple14%
willow oak8%
Also named across Texas, outside what the canopy read measures here: Red Oak, Bigtooth Maple, Sycamore.
Bald cypresses turn copper and russet along the Hill Country rivers, bigtooth maples in the Guadalupe Mountains produce pockets of scarlet, and sweetgums color the Piney Woods red and purple.
Across Texas as a whole: Late October in the Guadalupes, mid-November in the Hill Country, late November in East Texas.
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
