Bruneau, Idaho Weather
Bruneau, Idaho — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bruneau, Owyhee County.
Full aviation weather for Bruneau is published on the Mountain Home Air Force Base (KMUO) page, 19 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. 3 airfields within reach of Bruneau 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 Bruneau: Mountain Home Municipal Airport (KU76) 28 km · Grasmere Airport (KU91) 57 km
Conditions reported at KMUO describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bruneau specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bruneau.
About Bruneau, Idaho
Bruneau lies in a wide basin, a place where the earth seems to exhale a dry, sun-baked breath. It lies 52.6 miles south-east of Kuna, ID (from Kuna, ID: bearing 143°T), and is situated 18.3 miles south-south-west of Mountain Home. The land here is a study in ochre and pale gold, a vast, rolling expanse of sagebrush and hardy grasses that undulate toward distant, hazy mountains. The sky above Bruneau is an immense, unfiltered canvas, a deep, resonant blue that can shift to a bruised purple or a fiery orange as the day surrenders to evening. The air itself carries the scent of dust and the subtle, peppery aroma of desert flora, and in the quiet, one can almost hear the slow, patient work of erosion shaping the very bones of the landscape. The history of Bruneau is etched not in grand monuments, but in the persistent spirit of those who have sought sustenance from this challenging terrain. For generations, this has been a land of ranches and farms, the local economy still tethered to the cycles of livestock and the precious, hard-won bounty of irrigated fields. The Bruneau River, a ribbon of life drawing from distant snowmelt, has always been the artery of this place, its waters channeled with careful ingenuity to coax life from the arid earth. This is a locality where the past is not a museum piece but a living presence, a quiet testament to resilience in the face of an often unforgiving, yet profoundly beautiful, environment.
Live animated radar for Bruneau 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.
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| Location | Bruneau, Owyhee County, Idaho |
| Coordinates | 42.880452°N, 115.797308°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Boise) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 83604 |
| Area Code | 208 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bruneau, Idaho Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bruneau, Idaho, 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 Bruneau includes coordinates 42.880452°N, 115.797308°W, situated in Owyhee County. ZIP code 83604. Telephone area code: 208. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Boise).
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.
