Bassetts, California Weather
Bassetts, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bassetts, Sierra County.
Full aviation weather for Bassetts is published on the Sierraville Dearwater Airport (KO79) page, 20 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. 4 airfields within reach of Bassetts have their own pages, listed below.
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.
Other airports near Bassetts: Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) 40 km · Truckee Tahoe Airport (KTRK) 51 km · Nevada County Airport (KGOO) 57 km
Conditions reported at KO79 describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bassetts specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bassetts.
About Bassetts, California
Bassetts exists where the Sierra Nevada’s granite bones rise toward a vast, indifferent sky, a scattering of weathered wood and corrugated metal against the immensity of pine and fir. It lies 41.7 miles west of Reno, NV (from Reno, NV: bearing 279°T), and is situated 14.6 miles south-south-west of Portola. The air here, especially in the early morning before the sun has fully climbed, carries a clean, sharp scent of resin and damp earth, a fragrance that seeps into everything. The landscape itself is a study in rugged endurance, with slopes that fall away into shadowed canyons and ridges that hold their breath against the wind. Here, the light, when it breaks through the dense canopy, has a way of illuminating the dust motes dancing in the stillness, turning the ordinary into something almost sacred. This quiet corner of Sierra County holds echoes of a time when the earth yielded its treasures with a more violent grace. Bassetts, like many settlements in this region, was born of the gold rush, a place where fortune hunters once staked their claims, their hopes as high as the surrounding peaks. Though the fever has long since cooled, a spirit of self-reliance and a deep connection to the land persist, forming the character of its few permanent residents. The local economy, modest and unassuming, leans on the resilience of its people, a blend of those who tend the dwindling resources and those who find solace in the wild beauty, their days measured by the slow turning of seasons rather than the frantic ticking of clocks.
Live animated radar for Bassetts 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 | Bassetts, Sierra County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.619622°N, 120.587438°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96125 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bassetts, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bassetts, California, 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 Bassetts includes coordinates 39.619622°N, 120.587438°W, situated in Sierra County. ZIP code 96125. Telephone area code: 530. Timezone: Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).
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.
