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State Honey Profile 2025 harvest
Rank#16

Washington

NASS Region 5 - 16 of 20 reporting states

2025 production2.05Mlbs

1.8% of the U.S. crop 5.3%

Yield / colony
31 lb
-35.4% vs US
Price / lb
$4.36
+43.0% vs US
Colonies
66,000
-45.3% vs US
Stressor load
-
- vs US
Source: USDA / NASS · public aggregate datahivelinks /data/washington
01

Production & colony health

The latest USDA honey row for Washington pairs production, colony count, yield, price, and colony stressors without filling suppressed values.

Honey profile

2024 → 2025 movement

Year-over-year change across every reported honey metric for Washington.

Colonies66,000 8.3% from 72,000
Yield / colony31 lb 3.3% from 30 lb
Production2.05M lbs 5.3% from 2.16M lbs
Price / lb$4.36 29.4% from $3.37
Crop value$8.92M 22.6% from $7.28M
Benchmark

Indexed vs. U.S.

Each metric as a percentage above or below the U.S. baseline (center line = U.S. average).

derived
Yield / colony-35%31 lbs / colony
Price / lb+43%$4.36
Production / state avg-65%2.05M lbs
Crop value / state avg-49%$8.92M
Colonies / state avg-45%66,000
Colony health

Stressor fingerprint

Share of Washington colonies hit by each stressor (April-June), against the U.S. profile. Hover any axis or bar to compare.

aggregate
Varroa mites: 24.4%Other pests: 6.5%Pesticides: 4.5%Other: 6.4%Diseases: 4.7%Unknown: -VarroaOtherPesticidesOtherDiseasesUnknown
WAU.S. baseline
Varroa mites24.4%
Other pests6.5%
Other6.4%
Diseases4.7%
Pesticides4.5%
Unknown-

Varroa 24.4% state vs. 27.3% U.S.

02

Over time

The arc matters as much as the latest number. Stressor pressure is the one metric we can already track quarter to quarter for every state.

Varroa pressure, quarter by quarter

Share of Washington colonies reporting varroa mites across the official Honey Bee Colonies stressor series.

aggregate
0.0%15.0%30.0%45.0%60.0%Q1 '24: 18.4%Q2 '24: 54.0%Q3 '24: 21.1%Q4 '24: 34.5%Q1 '25: 24.0%Q2 '25: 24.4%Q1 '24Q3 '24Q1 '25Q2 '25

Official Honey Bee Colonies stressor rows only. This chart does not synthesize honey, yield, or pollination time-series shapes.

03

Pollination & opportunity

The opportunity index keeps Washington's crop demand, regional pollination fee, local colony supply, and colony health pressure visible as separate weighted inputs.

Opportunity index

Where the gap is

A transparent, weighted blend - directional context for pollination planning, not a forecast.

derived
27OPPORTUNITY

Composite of the four factors below, each scored 0-100 then weighted.

Crop demandw 40% - 171,000
12
Pollination ratew 25% - $54
26
Supply tightnessw 20% - 2.6
58
Colony healthw 15% - -
-
Crop demand overlay

Apple · Washington

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171,000bearing acres
$54benchmark fee
0.93 hives/acstocking rate
159,509implied hives needed

Apple alone implies 159,509 colony placements against 66,000 honey-producing colonies in-state - a 2.4x gap typically met by migratory operations.

04

Baselines & context

The closing cards keep structural Census baselines and related reporting states visible without mixing them into the annual honey row.

Census baseline

2022 Census of Agriculture

Structural baseline - independent of the annual honey survey.

direct
Colony inventory74,985
Honey production3.39M lbs
Honey sales$10.2M
Operations with inventory1,463