Fruita, CO Weather Forecast
Mesa County, Colorado
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Fruita, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Fruita, CO at a glance
Fruita is home to about 13,816 people in Mesa County, across 8 square miles. It ranks 42nd by population of 105 places in Colorado with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Grand Junction, 10 miles away.
- County
- Mesa County
- Population
- 13,816 2023 est.
- Land area
- 8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,725
- Forecast point
- 39.1556°N, 108.7296°W
How well can the network see Fruita?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGJX (Grand Junction, CO), to the ESE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,700 ft above Fruita. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Fruita show up clearly. Fruita is closer to its radar than 73% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KGJT (Grand Junction Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Fruita
- Grand Junction, CO10 mi
- Palisade, CO20 mi
- Delta, CO44 mi
- Orchard City, CO47 mi
- Rifle, CO58 mi
- Moab, UT60 mi
- Silt, CO64 mi
- Montrose, CO67 mi
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