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Modoc National Forest

Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain

21% trees around it and 123 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km21%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded123
  • Altitude1,511 m

The forest around

21% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 0%Grassland 96%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Trees 24%Grassland 71%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Trees 41%Grassland 58%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Trees 31%Grassland 65%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 0%21%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km24%
  • 3–6 km41%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees24%
  • Grassland71%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

123 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Klamath plum
Klamath plumPrunus subcordata7 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Doublehorn calicoflower
Doublehorn calicoflowerDowningia bicornuta3 recordsWilliam & Wilma Follette. · Public domain
Sulphur-flower buckwheat
Sulphur-flower buckwheatEriogonum umbellatum2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Clearwater cryptantha
Clearwater cryptanthaCryptantha intermedia2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whitehead navarretia
Whitehead navarretiaNavarretia leucocephala2 recordsNavarretia_leucocephala_pauciflora.jpg : DeanWmTaylor derivative work: Stickpen ( talk ) · CC BY 2.0
Needleleaf navarretia
Needleleaf navarretiaNavarretia intertexta2 recordsMerrie Freed · Public domain
Antelope bitterbrush
Antelope bitterbrushPurshia tridentata2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Polygonum kelloggiiPolygonum kelloggii13 records
Lathyrus browniiLathyrus brownii4 records
Linanthus harknessiiLinanthus harknessii3 records
Navarretia vividiorNavarretia vividior3 records
Leafy wildparsleyLomatium triternatum2 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 21%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 123Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,511 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan4°-6°88 mm
  2. Feb5°-4°92 mm
  3. Mar9°-2°93 mm
  4. Apr13°0°61 mm
  5. May18°4°48 mm
  6. Jun24°8°20 mm
  7. Jul31°12°7 mm
  8. Aug30°12°6 mm
  9. Sep25°8°13 mm
  10. Oct17°2°42 mm
  11. Nov8°-3°76 mm
  12. Dec3°-5°129 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Modoc National Forest.

National forest in northern California, USA

Modoc National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,511 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 21% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

123 species have been recorded around it: 16 plants, 0 fungi, 105 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Klamath plum, Doublehorn calicoflower and Sulphur-flower buckwheat.

The best time to walk is in May and in October.

22nd Year of Kids in the Woods at the Modoc National Forest (28400455211)
Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Modoc National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2campsites within 10 kmHoward's Gulch Campground, Reservoir F Campground
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Modoc National Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas27 mountains within 25 km
Cuppy Butte15 kmFleener Butte17 kmCat Hill18 kmAllen Butte20 kmDeer Hill20 kmDamons Butte21 kmCrank Mountain21 kmBlack Butte23 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Duncan Reservoir0.6 km² · 1.7 kmWilliams Reservoir0.9 km² · 4.9 kmReservoir F1.4 km² · 10 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

22nd Year of Kids in the Woods at the Modoc National Forest (27863271913)
Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain
Jess Valley Schoolhouse - Likely California
Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0
2017 08 10-21.50.28.218-CDT
U.S. Forest Service · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Modoc National Forest

United States

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 123Species

Lassen National Forest

United States · 112 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 114Species

See the guide

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

United States · 188 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 213Species

See the guide

Klamath National Forest

United States · 199 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 57Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6889555) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,566 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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