Butte Creek Canyon, California Weather
Butte Creek Canyon, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Butte Creek Canyon, Butte County.
Full aviation weather for Butte Creek Canyon is published on the Chico Regional Airport (KCIC) page, 16 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. 5 airfields within reach of Butte Creek Canyon 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 Butte Creek Canyon: Oroville Municipal Airport (KOVE) 29 km · Haigh Field (KO37) 39 km · Corning Municipal Airport (K0O4) 47 km · Willows Glenn County Airport (KWLW) 52 km
Conditions reported at KCIC describe the airfield itself. Weather 16 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Butte Creek Canyon specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Butte Creek Canyon.
About Butte Creek Canyon, California
Butte Creek Canyon unfolds like a whispered secret between rugged foothills, its topography a dramatic interplay of sun-drenched slopes and shadowed ravines. It lies 7.9 miles east of Chico, CA (from Chico, CA: bearing 82°T), and is situated 3.7 miles west-south-west of Paradise. The air here carries the dry, herbal scent of chaparral, a fragrance that deepens with the approaching evening, mingling with the fainter, sweeter perfume of wild sage. Ancient oaks, their branches gnarled and reaching like arthritic fingers, stand sentinel over dry creek beds that, in wetter seasons, would murmur with the quicksilver rush of water. The land itself feels sculpted by a patient, elemental hand, its ochre and umber hues shifting with the sun’s slow arc, creating a landscape of profound, quiet beauty. The silence is not empty, but filled with the rustle of unseen creatures and the distant hum of insects, a constant, subtle chorus. This is a place where the echoes of gold rush fever still resonate, though the boomtowns have long since faded into ghost towns, leaving only whispers of ambition in the wind. The local economy, once fueled by the relentless pursuit of precious metals, has found a more enduring rhythm in agriculture. Olive groves, their silvery leaves shimmering in the breeze, and vineyards, their rows stretching towards the horizon, now claim the fertile pockets of land. Small ranches dot the hillsides, their weathered fences speaking of generations dedicated to the land. Butte Creek Canyon retains a character shaped by this duality – a lingering sense of wildness and a deep-rooted connection to the earth, a place where the past is not forgotten but subtly informs the present.
Live animated radar for Butte Creek Canyon 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 | Butte Creek Canyon, Butte County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.743718°N, 121.689265°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95928 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Butte Creek Canyon, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Butte Creek Canyon, 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 Butte Creek Canyon includes coordinates 39.743718°N, 121.689265°W, situated in Butte County. ZIP code 95928. 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.
