Fairbury, IL Weather Forecast
Livingston County, Illinois
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Fairbury, 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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Fairbury, IL at a glance
Fairbury is home to about 3,574 people in Livingston County, across 1.8 square miles. It ranks 390th by population of 441 places in Illinois with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Pontiac, 12 miles away.
- County
- Livingston County
- Population
- 3,574 2023 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,955
- Forecast point
- 40.7462°N, 88.5156°W
How well can the network see Fairbury?
The nearest Doppler radar is KILX (Lincoln, IL), to the SW. Its lowest scan passes about 4,500 ft above Fairbury. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Fairbury can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KPNT (Pontiac Muni). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Fairbury
- Pontiac, IL12 mi
- Gibson City, IL21 mi
- Dwight, IL25 mi
- El Paso, IL26 mi
- Normal, IL29 mi
- Paxton, IL29 mi
- Bloomington, IL30 mi
- Streator, IL31 mi
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