Peak color, most of the stand18 NovAim for 17 to 20 Nov
In the forest today, Sep 25Still green
bald cypress and water oak
sweetgum, peak Nov 26
Peak color should arrive around 17 Nov for the bald cypress and water oak, and around 26 Nov for the sweetgum.
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 Sam Houston National Forest San Jacinto County holds most of the forest and is still green today. Walker County, to the northwest, is on the same day. Montgomery County, to the south, is 1 day behind.
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.
Tuesday 17 November to Wednesday 18 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 cypress23%
water oak12%
sweetgum12%
blackgum12%
red maple12%
willow oak11%
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
