Pike, California Weather
Pike, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Pike, Sierra County.
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About Pike, California
Pike, a cluster of weathered structures clinging to the steep slopes of Sierra County, unfolds under a sky that often feels vast and indifferent. It lies 39.0 miles east-north-east of Yuba City, CA (from Yuba City, CA: bearing 58°T), and is situated 15.6 miles north-north-east of Grass Valley. The landscape here is a raw, rugged symphony of granite and pine, where the air, thin and crisp, carries the scent of sun-baked earth and the distant murmur of unseen water. Creaking fences, bleached silver by relentless sun and snow, delineate properties that seem to have been wrestled from the mountainside, each one a small, stubborn assertion against the wild. The light, especially in the late afternoon, has a singular quality, a molten gold that spills over the ridges, softening the harsh lines of rock and lending a transient, almost painterly, grace to the scene. Tiny wildflowers, defiant and bright, push through the gravelly soil along the roadside, their colors a vibrant counterpoint to the muted palette of stone and evergreen. The history of Pike is deeply entwined with the relentless pursuit of ore, a legacy whispered in the rusting remnants of mining equipment and the hollowed-out echoes of shafts long since abandoned. This was a place built on grit and hope, where fortunes were dreamt of and sometimes, fleetingly, found in the veins of the earth. Today, the local economy, though far removed from its boisterous mining past, still carries a thread of that self-reliance, with a scattering of hardy businesses catering to the few year-round residents and the occasional intrepid visitor. The silence here is profound, broken only by the wind’s passage through the pines or the sharp cry of a hawk circling overhead, a reminder of the enduring wildness that shapes life in Pike.
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| Location | Pike, Sierra County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.43906°N, 120.998008°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95960 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pike, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pike, 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 Pike includes coordinates 39.439060°N, 120.998008°W, situated in Sierra County. ZIP code 95960. 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.
