Clear Creek, California Weather
Clear Creek, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Clear Creek, Lassen County.
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About Clear Creek, California
Clear Creek unfolds in a rugged embrace of rolling hills and steep canyons, a landscape sculpted by the persistent flow of water and the ancient breath of the earth. It lies 57.4 miles north-east of Chico, CA (from Chico, CA: bearing 46°T), and is situated 6.3 miles east-north-east of Lake Almanor. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a scent of sun-baked pine needles and dry grasses, a fragrance that seems to cling to the very dust kicked up by the infrequent vehicles that traverse its winding roads. Patches of scrub oak and tenacious manzanita cling to the slopes, their gnarled branches reaching like arthritic fingers towards a sky that often burns a startling blue. The creek itself, the namesake of this place, is a ribbon of cool, often clear water that tumbles over smooth stones, its murmur a constant, low-voiced companion to the wind that whispers through the sparse foliage. Life here moves with a deliberate, unhurried pace, dictated more by the turning of the seasons and the rise and fall of the sun than by any clock. The history of Clear Creek is etched not in grand monuments, but in the subtle scars of its past endeavors. For generations, it was a place where hardy souls sought their fortunes in the earth, a legacy hinted at by the weathered remnants of old mining claims, now slowly surrendering to the persistent scrub. The local economy, once driven by the extraction of minerals, has since shifted, finding its footing in the quiet pursuits of ranching and the modest tourism that draws those seeking solitude and the untamed beauty of the surrounding wilderness. The fertile pockets along the creek bottom, where water is more readily available, sustain small agricultural operations, their fields a testament to human resilience against the arid backdrop. It’s a place where the past is not forgotten, but rather absorbed into the present, a quiet hum beneath the everyday life of Clear Creek.
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| Location | Clear Creek, Lassen County, California |
| Coordinates | 40.297944°N, 121.048572°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96039, 96137 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Clear Creek, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Clear Creek, California, 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 Clear Creek includes coordinates 40.297944°N, 121.048572°W, situated in Lassen County. ZIP code 96039, 96137. 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. 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.
