Badger, Alaska Weather
Badger, Alaska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Badger, Fairbanks North Star.
Full aviation weather for Badger is published on the Bradley Sky-Ranch Airport (K95Z) page, 8 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Conditions reported at K95Z describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Badger specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Badger.
About Badger, Alaska
Badger lies spread beneath the vast Alaskan sky, a place where the land itself seems to breathe. It lies 6.0 miles east-south-east of Fairbanks, AK (from Fairbanks, AK: bearing 116°T), and is situated 8.8 miles east-south-east of College. The terrain here rolls with a gentle, almost hesitant, inclination, a landscape carved by ancient glaciers and smoothed by the persistent kiss of wind. Dense stands of spruce and birch, their needles and leaves a deep, resonant green in summer and a fiery spectacle in autumn, climb the low hills, giving way to open muskeg bogs that shimmer with an otherworldly light under the long twilight. The air itself carries a clean, sharp scent, a blend of damp earth, pine resin, and the faint, mineral tang of distant, unseen watercourses. Even in the stillness, there's a sense of immense, patient power in the land, a quiet grandeur that whispers of seasons past and winters yet to come. The story of Badger is one deeply intertwined with the raw bounty of the earth and the enduring spirit of those who sought their fortune here. While not a boomtown in the traditional sense, its character is etched by the legacy of resourcefulness, a quiet determination born of isolation and the need to make one's own way. For generations, the local economy has drawn sustenance from the surrounding wilderness, with a strong emphasis on agriculture, particularly hardy crops that can withstand the short, intense growing season. The land, though demanding, yields its rewards, and you can see the evidence in the well-tended fields and the sturdy, functional buildings that dot the landscape. This is a place where self-reliance is not just a virtue but a way of life, a spirit that flows through Badger like an underground spring, unseen but vital.
Live animated radar for Badger and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Badger, Fairbanks North Star, Alaska |
| Coordinates | 64.8°N, 147.533333°W |
| Timezone | Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 99705 |
| Area Code | 907 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Badger, Alaska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Badger, Alaska, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Badger includes coordinates 64.800000°N, 147.533333°W, situated in Fairbanks North Star. ZIP code 99705. Telephone area code: 907. Timezone: Alaska Time (America/Anchorage).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
