Cedar Ridge, California Weather
Cedar Ridge, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Cedar Ridge, Nevada County.
Full aviation weather for Cedar Ridge is published on the Nevada County Airport (KGOO) page, 3 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. 6 airfields within reach of Cedar Ridge 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 Cedar Ridge: Auburn Municipal Airport (KAUN) 28 km · Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) 28 km · Beale Air Force Base (KBAB) 36 km · Lincoln Regional Karl Harder Field (KLHM) 43 km · Yuba County Airport (KMYV) 49 km
Conditions reported at KGOO describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Cedar Ridge specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Cedar Ridge.
About Cedar Ridge, California
Cedar Ridge unfolds across a landscape where the Sierra Nevada foothills begin their gentle descent, a place defined by ponderosa pines that whisper secrets on the breeze and manzanita bushes displaying their burnished, peeling bark. It lies 25.8 miles north-east of Lincoln, CA (from Lincoln, CA: bearing 34°T), and is situated 2.6 miles east-south-east of Grass Valley. The air here, especially in the late afternoons, carries a dry, sun-baked fragrance, a scent of resin and dust that clings to the ochre-colored earth. Rolling hills, softened by the passage of seasons, give way to steeper ravines where the occasional creek bed, dry for much of the year, carves its patient path. The very light seems to have a different quality, a honeyed luminescence that filters through the dense canopy, illuminating the undergrowth in shifting patterns. The history of Cedar Ridge is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of those who sought its resources. This land was once a crossroads for those drawn by the promise of gold, though the true wealth of Cedar Ridge has always been its timber and the fertile pockets of land that supported a hardy agrarian spirit. The economy still hums with the quiet industry of logging and the seasonal bounty of local orchards, a legacy passed down through generations. You can still find remnants of old logging roads, faint scars on the terrain, and the occasional weathered barn that stands as a stoic sentinel to a bygone era, a quiet testament to the enduring character of Cedar Ridge.
Live animated radar for Cedar Ridge 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 | Cedar Ridge, Nevada County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.198783°N, 121.021058°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95945, 95924, 95370 |
| Area Code | 530, 408, 669 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Cedar Ridge, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cedar Ridge, 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 Cedar Ridge includes coordinates 39.198783°N, 121.021058°W, situated in Nevada County. ZIP code 95945, 95924, 95370. Telephone area code: 530, 408, 669. 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.
