Where, and when, the sap runs: county by county
- Counties
- 385
- with 5+ maple farms
- Maple farms, 2022
- 9,322
- 17 states
- Taps
- 18M
- published county totals
- Gallons of syrup
- 5.8M
- 2022 Census
Click a county. Shading is 2022 taps from the Census of Agriculture; grey counties reported fewer than five maple farms.
By state
Pick a state
Vermont
13 counties8,499,720 taps · led by Franklin County
USDA season median Mar 2 – Apr 12
New York
53 counties2,903,758 taps · led by Clinton County
USDA season median Feb 28 – Apr 5
Maine
16 counties1,946,642 taps · led by Somerset County
USDA season median Mar 4 – Apr 11
Wisconsin
53 counties1,272,963 taps · led by Marathon County
USDA season median Mar 15 – Apr 9
Pennsylvania
35 counties918,865 taps · led by Somerset County
USDA season median Feb 25 – Mar 28
Michigan
64 counties640,649 taps · led by Menominee County
USDA season median Mar 5 – Apr 7
New Hampshire
10 counties566,187 taps · led by Sullivan County
USDA season median Feb 28 – Apr 7
Ohio
49 counties468,579 taps · led by Geauga County
USDA season median Feb 18 – Mar 27
Massachusetts
6 counties255,805 taps · led by Franklin County
USDA season median Feb 24 – Apr 3
Indiana
17 counties107,234 taps · led by LaGrange County
USDA season median Feb 10 – Mar 12
Minnesota
29 counties97,822 taps · led by Chisago County
USDA season median Mar 6 – Apr 6
Connecticut
8 counties87,320 taps · led by Litchfield County
USDA season median Feb 12 – Mar 26
West Virginia
16 counties71,699 taps · led by Preston County
USDA season median Feb 4 – Mar 12
Iowa
6 counties23,903 taps · led by Chickasaw County
Kentucky
6 counties12,206 taps · led by Crittenden County
Illinois
4 counties7,756 taps · led by Whiteside County
Missouri
0 counties3,091 taps · led by Cape Girardeau County
Top ten
The biggest maple counties
- 1Franklin County, VT2,436,351 taps
- 2Somerset County, ME1,685,551 taps
- 3Lamoille County, VT1,113,960 taps
- 4Orleans County, VT911,598 taps
- 5Chittenden County, VT746,287 taps
- 6Addison County, VT728,236 taps
- 7Essex County, VT586,750 taps
- 8Orange County, VT440,188 taps
- 9Rutland County, VT375,147 taps
- 10Clinton County, NY365,777 taps
First and last
Where the season starts earliest, and latest
Earliest
Harrison County, Indiana
Sap usually runs January 14 – February 13 at Corydon; 44.2 sap days a season.
Latest
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Sap usually runs March 29 – April 18 at Superior; 25.8 sap days a season.
That is a spread of about 11weeks from the warm edge of the maple belt to the cold one, which is why “when to tap” needs a county answer, not a national one.
How it's built
Three public datasets, joined by county: USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture (farms, taps, gallons, 2017 and 2022), 36seasons of daily high and low temperatures for each county seat (PRISM 4-km grid, served by NOAA's Regional Climate Centers), and the National Weather Service forecast for this week. Each day is scored with the same freeze-thaw rule as our live forecast, and each season's opening and closing signals come from a rule we tested against 117 state-seasons of USDA-reported dates (within 5.5 days of the reported close and 6.6 days of the opening, on average). Method, calibration tables, limits and the CSV download →
Sources · 5
- 1.PRISM daily temperature grids (AN81d, 4 km), accessed 2026-10-05 · PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu
- 2.Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) web services · NOAA Regional Climate Centers
- 3.USDA NASS maple syrup reports — approximate average season opened and closed dates, 2011–2022 · USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (mirrored by the University of Vermont)
- 4.2024 U.S. Gazetteer Files — counties · U.S. Census Bureau
- 5.GeoNames gazetteer (cities500), CC BY 4.0 · GeoNames


