Sawmill, Arizona Weather
Sawmill, Arizona — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Sawmill, Gila County.
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About Sawmill, Arizona
Sawmill breathes the dry, sun-baked air of the high desert, a scattering of structures clinging to the rugged slopes of the Sierra Ancha. It lies 49.9 miles south-east of Highley, AZ (from Highley, AZ: bearing 126°T), and is situated 19.1 miles north of San Carlos. The landscape here is a study in muted earth tones, ochre and rust and the dusty green of juniper and piñon pine, all under a sky so vast and intensely blue it feels like a physical presence. Canyons, deeply incised by eons of wind and water, cleave the terrain, their shadowed depths promising cooler air and the murmur of unseen washes, while the surrounding mountains rise in a series of undulating ridges, their peaks often softened by the haze of distance. The light here possesses a peculiar clarity, sharp and unforgiving at midday, then softening into a warm, honeyed glow as the sun begins its descent, painting the rocks with strokes of rose and gold. This place, Sawmill, carries the scent of its past in its very dust, a legacy of timber and the rugged independence of those who sought their fortune here. The economy, once tethered to the logging industry that gave it its name, now leans more towards the quiet pursuits of ranching and a slow, steady trickle of tourism drawn to the raw beauty of the Gila National Forest. The silence here is not an absence of sound, but a presence – the whisper of wind through sparse vegetation, the distant call of a hawk, the occasional rumble of a truck on the unpaved roads. It’s a place where the rhythm of life is dictated by the sun’s arc and the land’s enduring, stoic character.
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| Location | Sawmill, Gila County, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 33.618108°N, 110.396491°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 85550, 86504 |
| Area Code | 480, 928 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Sawmill, Arizona Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sawmill, Arizona, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Sawmill includes coordinates 33.618108°N, 110.396491°W, situated in Gila County. ZIP code 85550, 86504. Telephone area code: 480, 928. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
