🔥 Burning Man 2026 · Aug 30 – Sep 7 · Black Rock City, NV
Playa Weather
Black Rock City · 40.786°N 119.204°W · 3,904 ft
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This app keeps working with zero signal — the last forecast, the map, and burn-week typicals all ride along.
Save it: iPhone — Safari Share → Add to Home Screen. Android — browser menu → Install app.
Open it once with signal and you're set for the playa.
Black Rock City
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📻 BMIR 94.5 · Weather
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BMIR 94.5 FMchecking signal…On playa with no signal? Tune a real FM radio to 94.5 — it's the emergency info channel.
💨 Wind · next 72 h
calm
dusty
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whiteout
🌧️ Rain · next 72 h
Probability of rain, hourly. Any measurable rain can close the playa to driving.
🌡️ Temp · next 72 h
Hourly temperature — playa swings ~30° between noon and 4 AM.
🗓️ Build & burn outlook
📡 Live stations
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RAWS ridge sites ringing the Black Rock Desert, via the free NWS API. Gusts at Bluewing or Fox Mountain often reach the playa within the hour.
🧮 Model comparison — max gust
Forecast: Open-Meteo (blend + HRRR, GFS, ECMWF, ICON) ·
Alerts & live obs: NWS · Air quality: Open-Meteo AQ ·
Dust risk is a gust heuristic — whiteouts typically start above ~25 mph. Any measurable rain can close the playa to driving.
📱 Works fully offline once visited — add it to your phone's home screen before you drive past Gerlach.
🔥 Leave no trace. Built by @james-julius.