Burns, Wyoming Weather
Burns, Wyoming — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Burns, Laramie County.
Full aviation weather for Burns is published on the Cheyenne Regional Jerry Olson Field (KCYS) page, 38 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. 2 airfields within reach of Burns 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 Burns: Kimball Municipal Robert E Arraj Field (KIBM) 57 km
Conditions reported at KCYS describe the airfield itself. Weather 38 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Burns specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Burns.
About Burns, Wyoming
Burns sits on the high plains, a place where the land stretches out, immense and quiet. It lies 24.3 miles east of Cheyenne, WY (from Cheyenne, WY: bearing 81°T), and is situated 15.1 miles west of Pine Bluffs. The sky here is a vast dome, often a pale, washed-out blue, and the wind, when it blows, carries the dry scent of sagebrush and distant grasses. The terrain is gently rolling, a landscape of subtle rises and dips that hint at ancient watercourses, now mostly dry arroyos etched into the earth. Low-lying scrub oak and hardy grasses cling to the soil, their muted greens and browns a testament to the resilience required to thrive in this open country. The light at dawn and dusk paints the horizon with bruised purples and fiery oranges, a fleeting beauty that seems to belong to the land itself. Burns’s history is tied to the ranching and railroad days, a time when this prairie crossroads held a vital function. The local economy still leans heavily on agriculture, with cattle ranches dotting the surrounding landscape, their barbed wire fences stretching for miles under the immense Wyoming sky. The railroad, though less dominant than it once was, still passes through, a reminder of the town’s past importance as a waypoint. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions in Burns, but there is a quiet dignity to the place, a sense of lives lived in harmony with the demanding, beautiful plains. The rhythm of everyday life here is unhurried, dictated by the sun and the seasons, a steady pulse against the immensity of the open country.
Live animated radar for Burns 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 | Burns, Laramie County, Wyoming |
| Coordinates | 41.192759°N, 104.359124°W |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 82053 |
| Area Code | 307 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Burns, Wyoming Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Burns, Wyoming, 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 Burns includes coordinates 41.192759°N, 104.359124°W, situated in Laramie County. ZIP code 82053. Telephone area code: 307. 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.
