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Coming Fall 2025
This map is an estimate of fall foliage conditions on the posted date. All maps are updated daily to reflect deviations from normal due to real-time weather conditions.
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This tracks for us in Vermont. It's barely rained since early July, and of the trees in our yard, the birch is damn near bare, the oak is starting to drop, and the maple is just holding on to its leaves. In the wider area I drive in, the trees are starting to show some color.
We're looking forward to some rain this week, but we're a ways behind[0]. If you have New England fall foliage plans, you might want to move them up if you can.
By dugmartin 2025-09-239:53 Confimed. I live in the tiny bit of "moderate" color that is dipping down from Vermont into Western Mass. We are in a drought and the leaves seem to be just drying up and dropping instead of changing colors. I'm hoping the rain this week doesn't just knock them off the trees.
By mindslight 2025-09-233:51 It feels like it's going to be a pretty lackluster leaf season, with everything going at different times. Note to tourists: if you'd like to bring some leaves home, take as many as you'd like.
By Loudergood 2025-09-232:06 Indeed, I just drove across the state on Saturday and things are just starting to change in the higher valleys. Stressed trees are starting in the lower valleys as well.
By nativeit 2025-09-238:01 We travel to New England the first week of October every year regardless to see family. It’s usually a great week to see the foliage, but considering the way everything has been going here in NC (leaves are already starting) I was expecting an early start, it’s a bummer to hear confirmed. Oh well, looking forward to visiting either way. See y’all in a few weeks!
Can confirm. North central VT a lot of brown/leaf drops very early without even rain. Of which, with this morning's 0.25" we are at 1.08" for Sept after 1.72" in Aug. That said, there are some reds developing and a smattering of yellows.
Advise leaf peepers to skip my town and just stay in NJ ;)
By beezle 2025-09-2314:50 But for any who still want to do it, rec that you check webcams at the various mountain resorts (Jay, Stowe, Sugarbush, KMart, Mt Snow, etc).
By lambdasquirrel 2025-09-234:54 Yeah you can't really have a foliage map without a drought map to accompany it. The fall colors are a fickle thing. Last year's was pretty drab in lower NY. The year before it was quite good.
Not that I was expecting a global dataset, but title should be “USA Fall Foliage Map 2025“.
By rappatic 2025-09-2511:11 That was my original title but I think mods changed it because it doesn’t reflect the website’s title.
By bushman130 2025-09-239:51 Maybe we'll get an "Autumn Foliage Map" for the rest of the world. England's looking quite beautiful this month.
By JumpCrisscross 2025-09-233:19 Strongly recommend for Clockwork's The Incredible Biology Powering Autumn Colors｜Leaf Senescence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOjkeyjJ364.
The biochemistry of photosynthesis is wild. The fact that these are mobile power stations that plants remove from the frontline for winter is mind blowing. (The closest I can think of would be your eyes shipping all of their retinal into your liver or whatever while you sleep.)
