Frontier, North Dakota Weather
Frontier, North Dakota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Frontier, Cass County.
Full aviation weather for Frontier is published on the West Fargo Municipal Airport (KD54) page, 13 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 Frontier 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 Frontier: Hector International Airport (KFAR) 13 km · Moorhead Municipal Airport (KJKJ) 14 km · Hamry Field (KK74) 21 km · Casselton Robert Miller Regional Airport (K5N8) 29 km · Pelican Rapids Muni-Lyon's Field (K47Y) 58 km
Conditions reported at KD54 describe the airfield itself. Weather 13 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Frontier specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Frontier.
About Frontier, North Dakota
Frontier in Cass County is a place where the sky feels impossibly vast, a boundless canvas stretching over gently rolling prairie. It lies 5.7 miles south-south-west of Fargo, ND (from Fargo, ND: bearing 201°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-south-west of Moorhead. The landscape, a patchwork of cultivated fields and open grassland, exhales a scent of rich, dark earth, especially potent after a rain. Sunlight, when it breaks through, has a liquid quality, pooling in the ditches and glinting off the distant, almost imperceptible horizon. The air itself carries a certain stillness, a quietude broken only by the whisper of wind through tall grasses or the distant rumble of a passing combine. This is a land that demands attention, not through dramatic peaks or crashing waves, but through its sheer, unadorned expanse. The history of Frontier is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring legacy of agriculture, a testament to the hardy spirit that first settled these fertile plains. The local economy, deeply rooted in the cultivation of wheat and soybeans, still hums with the rhythm of planting and harvest, a vital pulse that connects the present to generations past. While not a hub of industry, Frontier’s character is defined by its hardworking populace and a sense of shared resilience, a quiet pride in the land that sustains them. The distinctive feature of Frontier is this profound connection to the soil, a relationship that shapes the very essence of life here, under the immense Dakota sky.
Live animated radar for Frontier 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 | Frontier, Cass County, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 46.800521°N, 96.833139°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 58104 |
| Area Code | 701 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Frontier, North Dakota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Frontier, North Dakota, 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 Frontier includes coordinates 46.800521°N, 96.833139°W, situated in Cass County. ZIP code 58104. Telephone area code: 701. 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.
