Valley Ranch, California Weather
Valley Ranch, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Valley Ranch, Plumas County.
Full aviation weather for Valley Ranch is published on the Sierraville Dearwater Airport (KO79) page, 25 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 Valley Ranch 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 Valley Ranch: Blue Canyon Nyack Airport (KBLU) 53 km · Truckee Tahoe Airport (KTRK) 59 km · Reno-Stead Airport (KRTS) 60 km
Conditions reported at KO79 describe the airfield itself. Weather 25 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Valley Ranch specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Valley Ranch.
About Valley Ranch, California
Valley Ranch unfolds in a series of gentle slopes, a verdant embrace of rolling hills carpeted in grasses that shimmer with an almost liquid gold under the high Sierra sun. It lies 42.5 miles west-north-west of Reno, NV (from Reno, NV: bearing 290°T), and is situated 7.2 miles south-west of Portola. Tall ponderosa pines, their bark like jigsaw puzzles of cinnamon and ochre, punctuate the landscape, offering a cool, dappled shade that seems to breathe with the afternoon heat. Creeks, mere silver threads from a distance, weave their way through the terrain, their banks lined with willows that weep emerald tendrils towards the water's murmur. The air itself carries a subtle, dry perfume of pine needles and sun-baked earth, a scent that clings to the lungs and promises a vast, open sky. The history of Valley Ranch is whispered in the wind that rustles through the meadows, a legacy tied to the hardy souls who first sought sustenance from this land. Once a place where prospectors and loggers carved out a living, its economy has since shifted, finding its rhythm in the quiet hum of agriculture and the increasing draw of its natural beauty for those seeking respite from busier lives. The sturdy, weathered barns that dot the landscape are silent testaments to generations of farmers who coaxed life from the soil, their efforts reflected in the orderly rows of hay and the grazing herds that move like slow, deliberate clouds across the hillsides. Here, the pace of life is measured not by the ticking of clocks, but by the arc of the sun and the deepening hues of twilight that paint the western horizon in strokes of lavender and rose.
Live animated radar for Valley Ranch 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 | Valley Ranch, Plumas County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.737678°N, 120.56605°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 96106 |
| Area Code | 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Valley Ranch, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Valley Ranch, 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 Valley Ranch includes coordinates 39.737678°N, 120.566050°W, situated in Plumas County. ZIP code 96106. 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.
