Bridger, Montana Weather
Bridger, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Bridger, Carbon County.
Full aviation weather for Bridger is published on the Bridger Municipal Airport (K6S1) page, 1 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. 5 airfields within reach of Bridger 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 Bridger: Red Lodge Airport (KRED) 30 km · Woltermann Memorial Airport (K6S3) 45 km · Laurel Municipal Airport (K6S8) 47 km · Powell Municipal Airport (KPOY) 49 km
Conditions reported at K6S1 describe the airfield itself. Weather 1 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bridger specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Bridger.
About Bridger, Montana
Bridger lies under a sky that stretches, a vast, pale blue canvas brushed with the faintest ochre as evening begins its slow descent. It lies 39.2 miles south-south-west of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 211°T), and is situated 17.9 miles east-north-east of Red Lodge. The land here is a study in muted earth tones, rolling hills of dry grass giving way to a more rugged terrain where wind-scoured rock outcrops punctuate the landscape. A thin ribbon of asphalt, the highway, slices through this expanse, the only significant disruption to the natural contours. The air, even in the relative warmth of midday, carries a crispness, a whisper of the high plains, and the silence is profound, broken only by the rustle of wind through the sparse vegetation and the distant cry of a hawk circling overhead, a dark speck against the immensity. The story of Bridger is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of those who worked its unforgiving soil and mined its subterranean wealth. Coal, the black blood of this region, once fueled the fires of industry far beyond these horizons, and the legacy of those mines can still be felt, a phantom weight in the collective memory. Ranching, a simpler but no less demanding pursuit, continues to shape the economy, the rhythm of livestock and seasons dictating the slow, steady pulse of life. The few buildings that comprise Bridger stand as stoic witnesses to this history, their weathered facades telling tales of resilience in a place where nature's grandeur often overshadows human endeavor, and where the light at dusk transforms the ordinary into something profoundly beautiful.
Live animated radar for Bridger 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 | Bridger, Carbon County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.295781°N, 108.913754°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59014 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bridger, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bridger, Montana, 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 Bridger includes coordinates 45.295781°N, 108.913754°W, situated in Carbon County. ZIP code 59014. Telephone area code: 406. Timezone: Mountain Time (America/Denver).
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.
