Fox, Montana Weather
Fox, Montana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Fox, Carbon County.
Full aviation weather for Fox is published on the Red Lodge Airport (KRED) page, 11 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 Fox 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 Fox: Bridger Municipal Airport (K6S1) 23 km · Woltermann Memorial Airport (K6S3) 39 km · Powell Municipal Airport (KPOY) 56 km · Laurel Municipal Airport (K6S8) 59 km
Conditions reported at KRED describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fox specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fox.
About Fox, Montana
Fox sprawls across a high plain, a place where the sky feels vast enough to swallow the earth whole. It lies 49.3 miles south-west of Billings, MT (from Billings, MT: bearing 225°T), and is situated 6.5 miles north-north-east of Red Lodge. The land rolls in broad, sweeping gestures, a canvas of sagebrush and shortgrass prairie that stretches to meet horizons that are often sharp and unwavering, broken only by the distant, blue-hazed shoulders of mountains. The air here, even in the gentle warmth of late spring, carries a crispness, a reminder of the high altitude and the long, quiet winters that sculpt the character of this place. The few structures that comprise Fox seem to hunker down, as if in communion with the sturdy, sun-baked earth, their colors muted against the endless, pale gold of the landscape. This country around Fox was shaped by the slow, inexorable grind of glaciers and the determined spirit of those who came seeking a living from its sometimes unforgiving soil. Its roots are tangled with the boom and bust of mining, a history whispered in the wind that sweeps through the silent canyons and the skeletal remains of old workings. Today, the economy of Fox is a quieter affair, tethered to the rhythms of ranching and the tentative bloom of tourism drawn by the raw, untamed beauty of the surrounding wilderness. There are no grand universities or bustling metropolises here, just the enduring presence of a landscape that demands respect and a community that understands the value of quiet resilience, where the days unfold with a steady, unhurried cadence, punctuated by the hawk’s cry and the distant rumble of a truck on a lonely road.
Live animated radar for Fox 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 | Fox, Carbon County, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45.276889°N, 109.217099°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 59070 |
| Area Code | 406 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fox, Montana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fox, 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 Fox includes coordinates 45.276889°N, 109.217099°W, situated in Carbon County. ZIP code 59070. 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.
