Fish Springs, Nevada Weather
Fish Springs, Nevada — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Fish Springs, Douglas County.
Full aviation weather for Fish Springs is published on the Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV) page, 10 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 Fish Springs 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 Fish Springs: Carson Airport (KCXP) 28 km · Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL) 30 km · Dayton Valley Airpark (KA34) 33 km · Rose Quartz Ranch Airport (KN49) 47 km · Truckee Tahoe Airport (KTRK) 59 km
Conditions reported at KMEV describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fish Springs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fish Springs.
About Fish Springs, Nevada
Fish Springs lies in a wide basin, a place where the earth exhales a dry, sun-baked breath. It lies 15.8 miles south-south-east of Carson City, NV (from Carson City, NV: bearing 157°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-east of Gardnerville Ranchos. The land here is a study in muted tones: ochre dust clinging to the sparse, resilient grasses, the distant mountains a hazy, ancient blue against a sky that stretches, vast and indifferent, from horizon to horizon. Sagebrush, stiff and fragrant, carpets the undulating terrain, punctuated by the skeletal remains of long-departed shrubs, their branches like gnarled fingers reaching for the indifferent sun. The air itself has a texture, a dry, warm caress that whispers of endless days and starlit nights, a profound quietude broken only by the sigh of the wind or the distant cry of a hawk circling in the immense, pale light. The story of Fish Springs is etched not in grand monuments, but in the subtle shifts of the land and the enduring spirit of those who have eked out a living from its unforgiving embrace. This is a region where the legacy of ranching still clings to the air, the scent of dry hay and honest labor a faint but persistent perfume. The economy, once perhaps more robust with the promise of burgeoning settlements, now relies on a quieter sustenance, a careful balancing of resources and a deep understanding of the rhythms of the desert. It is a place that asks for patience, for a keen eye to find the beauty in the starkness, to appreciate the tenacious bloom of a desert wildflower or the way the setting sun paints the western peaks in hues of rose and lavender, a fleeting, glorious spectacle in the vast stillness.
Live animated radar for Fish Springs 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 | Fish Springs, Douglas County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 38.9536°N, 119.6511°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 89410 |
| Area Code | 775 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fish Springs, Nevada Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fish Springs, Nevada, 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 Fish Springs includes coordinates 38.953600°N, 119.651100°W, situated in Douglas County. ZIP code 89410. Telephone area code: 775. 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.
