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Maple syrup in Michigan, county by county
Michigan had 941 maple operations running 640,649 taps in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by Menominee County. Pick a county for its typical season dates, 36 seasons of sap weather and this week's forecast.
- Maple farms, 2022
- 941
- +8% since 2017
- Taps, 2022
- 640,649
- -4% since 2017
- Gallons of syrup
- 206,486
- 0.32 gal per tap
- Counties with a page
- 64
- of 79 with maple farms
Reading the map
Where Michigan's sugaring happens
Menominee County alone holds 45,900 taps (7% of the state). Counties shaded lightest have the fewest taps; grey counties reported fewer than five maple farms and have no atlas page. Click any county for its season calendar.
USDA's reported Michigan season ran from about Mar 5 to Apr 7 in a median year (12 years of records). Our weather signal for the same counties, weighted by farms, gives Mar 9 to Apr 10; county dates below are scaled so the state matches USDA, keeping only the within-state differences.
Every county
Michigan maple production and season dates by county
Farms, taps and gallons from the 2022 Census of Agriculture, with the change in taps since 2017. Season dates are each county's typical year from 36 seasons of daily temperatures.
| County | Farms | Taps | Gallons | Taps vs 2017 | Sap usually runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menominee | 19 | 45,900 | 12,107 | -29% | Mar 11 – Apr 12 |
| Mackinac | 7 | 40,791 | withheld | -7% | Mar 24 – Apr 22 |
| Charlevoix | 12 | 38,900 | 19,405 | -1% | Mar 13 – Apr 12 |
| Cheboygan | 15 | 35,531 | 11,938 | -19% | Mar 16 – Apr 18 |
| Oscoda | 10 | 29,640 | 10,818 | +3% | Mar 9 – Apr 14 |
| Houghton | 14 | 29,498 | 8,892 | +71% | Mar 23 – Apr 25 |
| Chippewa | 17 | 28,305 | 9,410 | -27% | Mar 24 – Apr 23 |
| Grand Traverse | 26 | 26,288 | 14,007 | -8% | Mar 9 – Apr 12 |
| Eaton | 27 | 18,705 | 3,840 | -27% | Feb 24 – Mar 28 |
| Alger | 10 | 18,500 | 4,783 | +0% | Mar 25 – Apr 24 |
| Antrim | 11 | 17,134 | 4,260 | +58% | Mar 10 – Apr 13 |
| Kalkaska | 14 | 14,716 | 5,379 | +45% | Mar 13 – Apr 16 |
| Sanilac | 24 | 13,410 | 3,975 | +151% | Mar 3 – Apr 2 |
| Manistee | 19 | 12,037 | 3,561 | +1020% | Mar 8 – Apr 10 |
| Emmet | 13 | 11,905 | 4,084 | +112% | Mar 13 – Apr 14 |
| Barry | 15 | 11,594 | 3,955 | +31% | Feb 21 – Mar 28 |
| Osceola | 26 | 10,731 | 5,549 | +233% | Mar 9 – Apr 12 |
| Mason | 10 | 10,426 | 1,238 | +273% | Mar 6 – Apr 6 |
| Isabella | 15 | 10,370 | 4,716 | +135% | Mar 2 – Apr 2 |
| Iron | 5 | 9,930 | 4,533 | +52% | Mar 23 – Apr 25 |
| Otsego | 14 | 9,235 | 3,014 | — | Mar 13 – Apr 14 |
| Lapeer | 28 | 9,173 | 1,704 | +42% | Feb 24 – Mar 28 |
| Oceana | 11 | 8,740 | 3,603 | +74% | Mar 3 – Apr 5 |
| Clare | 13 | 8,587 | 3,493 | -47% | Mar 10 – Apr 13 |
| Mecosta | 21 | 8,511 | 2,159 | -69% | Mar 6 – Apr 9 |
| Tuscola | 12 | 7,570 | 1,825 | +0% | Mar 1 – Apr 2 |
| Wexford | 16 | 7,180 | 2,652 | +13% | Mar 11 – Apr 13 |
| Delta | 15 | 6,840 | 1,130 | +27% | Mar 20 – Apr 21 |
| Leelanau | 39 | 6,448 | 1,537 | -32% | Mar 12 – Apr 12 |
| Washtenaw | 13 | 6,370 | 1,690 | +70% | Feb 19 – Mar 27 |
| Ingham | 27 | 6,355 | 1,008 | +86% | Feb 24 – Mar 28 |
| Ionia | 16 | 5,980 | 1,274 | +5% | Feb 25 – Mar 29 |
| Kent | 30 | 5,979 | 941 | +3% | Feb 26 – Mar 31 |
| Benzie | 9 | 5,201 | 1,120 | +410% | Mar 7 – Apr 9 |
| Montcalm | 17 | 4,338 | 536 | -8% | Feb 27 – Apr 3 |
| Huron | 6 | 4,337 | 688 | — | Mar 5 – Apr 6 |
| Shiawassee | 9 | 4,240 | 967 | +60% | Feb 23 – Mar 28 |
| Gladwin | 17 | 3,946 | 871 | +239% | Mar 5 – Apr 7 |
| Alcona | 7 | 3,800 | 872 | +8% | Mar 13 – Apr 13 |
| St. Joseph | 12 | 3,248 | 848 | — | Feb 18 – Mar 22 |
| Clinton | 21 | 3,163 | 989 | -20% | Feb 24 – Mar 28 |
| Saginaw | 6 | 3,160 | 328 | +464% | Feb 24 – Mar 30 |
| Newaygo | 23 | 3,134 | 745 | +13% | Mar 3 – Apr 7 |
| Baraga | 7 | 2,703 | 620 | — | Mar 21 – Apr 25 |
| Hillsdale | 11 | 2,572 | 527 | -68% | Feb 20 – Mar 26 |
| Genesee | 8 | 2,353 | 300 | -10% | Feb 24 – Mar 28 |
| Ogemaw | 5 | 2,236 | 610 | -78% | Mar 10 – Apr 14 |
| Midland | 11 | 2,017 | 315 | +21% | Feb 27 – Mar 30 |
| Gratiot | 14 | 1,638 | 204 | +63% | Mar 1 – Apr 2 |
| Kalamazoo | 8 | 1,614 | 224 | -49% | Feb 21 – Mar 27 |
| Calhoun | 16 | 1,612 | 321 | -43% | Feb 23 – Mar 28 |
| Marquette | 20 | 1,200 | 462 | -25% | Mar 21 – Apr 21 |
| Oakland | 20 | 1,127 | 255 | +88% | Feb 22 – Mar 27 |
| Allegan | 12 | 1,057 | 259 | -79% | Feb 24 – Mar 29 |
| Schoolcraft | 5 | 681 | 71 | — | Mar 25 – Apr 22 |
| Gogebic | 15 | 625 | 99 | — | Mar 20 – Apr 23 |
| Jackson | 17 | 579 | 142 | -22% | Feb 21 – Mar 27 |
| Muskegon | 3 | 550 | 67 | -36% | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Monroe | 5 | 495 | 180 | +221% | Feb 16 – Mar 22 |
| Lenawee | 6 | 408 | 65 | -37% | Feb 18 – Mar 24 |
| St. Clair | 5 | 173 | 55 | -76% | Feb 23 – Mar 27 |
| Macomb | 8 | 132 | 14 | — | Feb 18 – Mar 23 |
| Branch | 3 | 81 | 24 | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Arenac | 4 | 79 | 18 | -6% | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Lake | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Wayne | 0 | 0 | 0 | -100% | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Presque Isle | 8 | withheld | withheld | — | Mar 15 – Apr 15 |
| Van Buren | 8 | withheld | withheld | — | Feb 19 – Mar 26 |
| Iosco | 6 | withheld | withheld | — | Mar 8 – Apr 8 |
| Cass | 4 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Livingston | 4 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Alpena | 3 | withheld | 80 | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Bay | 2 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Berrien | 2 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Dickinson | 2 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Missaukee | 2 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Roscommon | 2 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Luce | 1 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Montmorency | 1 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Ontonagon | 1 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Ottawa | 1 | withheld | withheld | — | fewer than 5 farms · no page |
| Michigan total | 941 | 640,649 | 206,486 | -4% | USDA median Mar 5 – Apr 7 |
“Withheld” = USDA suppressed the figure to avoid disclosing individual operations. County totals need not sum to the state total for that reason.
About this page
Production figures are copied, unchanged, from Table 37 of the 2022 Census of Agriculture county volume for Michigan. Season dates come from our county maple atlas: 36 seasons of daily temperatures at each county seat scored with the freeze-thaw rule behind our live forecast, calibrated against 117 state-seasons of USDA-reported dates. How the atlas is built, and the downloadable dataset →
Sources · 3
- 1.2022 Census of Agriculture, County Level Data — Michigan, Table 37: Maple Syrup, 2022 and 2017 · USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
- 2.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)
- 3.PRISM daily temperature grids (AN81d, 4 km), accessed 2026-10-05 · PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu
FAQ
Michigan maple questions
- Which county in Michigan makes the most maple syrup?
- Menominee County, with 45,900 taps and 12,107 gallons of syrup across 19 farms in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, about 7% of the state's taps. USDA withheld totals for 16 counties to protect individual farms, so the ranking covers published counties.
- How many maple producers are there in Michigan?
- The 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 941 farms producing maple syrup in Michigan (875 in 2017), with 640,649 taps and 206,486 gallons of syrup. The Census counts farms, so backyard sugarmakers who don't sell are not included.
- Where does the sap run first in Michigan?
- By our weather record, Monroe County (Monroe) typically starts around February 16, while Schoolcraft County (Manistique) starts around March 25, a spread of about 37 days across the state.
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