Fancy Prairie, Illinois Weather
Fancy Prairie, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Fancy Prairie, Menard County.
Full aviation weather for Fancy Prairie is published on the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (KSPI) page, 18 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 Fancy Prairie 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 Fancy Prairie: Logan County Airport (KAAA) 29 km · Havana Regional Airport (K9I0) 44 km · Pekin Municipal Airport (KC15) 55 km · Taylorville Municipal Airport (KTAZ) 56 km · Jacksonville Municipal Airport (KIJX) 60 km
Conditions reported at KSPI describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fancy Prairie specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fancy Prairie.
About Fancy Prairie, Illinois
Fancy Prairie breathes the wide Illinois sky across its gently rolling terrain, a landscape painted in broad strokes of sun-warmed fields and the deep, shadowed green of distant tree lines. It lies 13.7 miles north of Springfield, IL (from Springfield, IL: bearing 10°T), and is situated 7.2 miles north of Sherman. The air here carries the scent of drying grass and the faint, earthy perfume of freshly turned soil, a constant reminder of the land's enduring generosity. Here, the horizon is a vast, uninterrupted canvas, where clouds drift like slow, white ships and the setting sun bleeds hues of apricot and rose across the immense expanse. The soil itself, a rich, dark loam, seems to hold the quiet patience of generations, absorbing the light and the rain to fuel the steady growth that defines Fancy Prairie’s character. The history of Fancy Prairie is as deeply rooted as the prairie grass that once dominated this land, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who first settled here, drawn by the promise of fertile ground. Early settlers, many of them farmers, established a way of life that still echoes in the quiet hum of agricultural machinery and the predictable rhythm of the seasons. The local economy, while not a bustling metropolis, thrives on the bounty of the earth, with grain elevators standing sentinel over fields of corn and soybeans. This enduring connection to the land imbues Fancy Prairie with a distinctive character, a place where the past is not forgotten but lives on in the open fields and the enduring sense of community.
Live animated radar for Fancy Prairie 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 | Fancy Prairie, Menard County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 39.997549°N, 89.599548°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 62613, 62622 |
| Area Code | 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fancy Prairie, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fancy Prairie, Illinois, 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 Fancy Prairie includes coordinates 39.997549°N, 89.599548°W, situated in Menard County. ZIP code 62613, 62622. Telephone area code: 217. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
