Prairie City, Oregon Weather
Prairie City, Oregon — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Prairie City, Grant County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Prairie City. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Prairie City is published on the Grant County Regional Airport / Ogilvie Field (KGCD) page, 21 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.
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.
Conditions reported at KGCD describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Prairie City specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Prairie City.
About Prairie City, Oregon
Prairie City unfolds with the quiet dignity of the high desert, its buildings clustered against a backdrop of rolling hills that eventually climb towards the jagged peaks of the Strawberry Mountains. It lies 109.9 miles south of Whitman, WA (from Whitman, WA: bearing 186°T), and is situated 12.4 miles east-north-east of John Day. The air here carries the faint, dry scent of sagebrush and sun-baked earth, a constant reminder of the vast, open spaces that cradle this small settlement. Sunlight, particularly in the late afternoon, has a peculiar, almost viscous quality, pooling in the hollows of the land and painting the weathered wood of the few storefronts with strokes of molten gold. The Sky, a boundless canvas of cerulean, seems to press down with an immense, benevolent weight, and the silence is so profound it can feel like a presence itself, broken only by the distant bleating of sheep or the low hum of a passing truck. Founded on the promise of mineral wealth and sustained by the resilience of ranching families, Prairie City’s history is etched not in grand monuments but in the enduring spirit of its people. For generations, the land has yielded its bounty, first through the arduous work of miners seeking gold and later through the steady labor of cattle ranchers whose herds still dot the surrounding rangelands. The local economy, though modest, pulses with the lifeblood of agriculture and the quiet commerce of a community that knows the value of mutual support. A walk down Main Street reveals a tangible connection to the past, with buildings that have witnessed the ebb and flow of boom and bust, their facades whispering tales of a frontier spirit that continues to define Prairie City.
Live animated radar for Prairie City 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 | Prairie City, Grant County, Oregon |
| Coordinates | 44.463214°N, 118.709948°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 97869 |
| Area Code | 541 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Prairie City, Oregon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Prairie City, Oregon, 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 Prairie City includes coordinates 44.463214°N, 118.709948°W, situated in Grant County. ZIP code 97869. Telephone area code: 541. 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.
