Blackfoot Fire Dept, ID Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Blackfoot Fire Dept's primary NOAA station, BLACKFOOT FIRE DEPT.
The climate verdict for Blackfoot Fire Dept
Dryness leads the climate profile for Blackfoot Fire Dept, Idaho, with 12.1 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 47°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 47°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 12.1"
- annual precipitation · 15" snow
- 151 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Blackfoot Fire Dept: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00100915 · Blackfoot Fire Dept, ID 47°F mean · 12.1" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,921
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Burton
- PRCP-DRY 12.1"
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,990 HDD
- STN-1 USC00100915
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Burton, MI (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every ID station list.
- Blackfoot Fire… (this station) 47°F
- Cold Logan Radio Kvnu, UT 47°F
- Hot Concord, NH 47°F
- Near Burton, MI 47°F
- Near Kent City, MI 47°F
Climate Living Index · Blackfoot Fire Dept
Blackfoot Fire Dept: 33/100 · grade F
Blackfoot Fire Dept publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Blackfoot Fire Dept, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 14.7 inches/year | 56/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 157 calendar days | 41/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.2°F · 20.3° from 67.5°F | 28/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 151 days/year | 26/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 12.1 in · 22.9 from 35 in | 19/100 · F |
Blackfoot Fire Dept · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Blackfoot Fire Dept's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 71.4°F
- Coldest month
- 24.0°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Blackfoot Fire Dept sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Blackfoot Fire Dept's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 72%
- Among 6,861 stations, Blackfoot Fire Dept sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 90%
- Blackfoot Fire Dept's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 70%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Blackfoot Fire Dept is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Blackfoot Fire Dept compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Blackfoot Fire Dept's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Blackfoot Fire Dept's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 59 complete annual observations from 1897 to 2021, BLACKFOOT FIRE DEPT warmed at a fitted rate of 0.11°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Blackfoot Fire Dept primary station fitted change +0.11 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31°F (0°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 1.0" | 6.0" | 30.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 0.7" | 2.2" | 25.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 49°F (9°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.1" | 0.3" | 22.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.4" | 0.7" | 13.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 2.6 | 0.2 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 2.2 |
| July | 87°F (31°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 12.1 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 10.5 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.1" | 0.8" | 12.9 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.8" | 1.4" | 24.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 32°F (0°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.1" | 3.3" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 89°F around July 27, short of 90°F on every date, while 157 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 16°F near December 28.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 29, then returns to freezing around October 25, covering 157 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is April 9, when 28% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 12 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 75 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 32°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Blackfoot Fire Dept.
Where Blackfoot Fire Dept Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 12 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Blackfoot Fire Dept earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 6.0"
7.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.2"
6.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
6.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
8.5 days with precipitation
8.1 days with precipitation
5.8 days with precipitation
3.3 days with precipitation
3.3 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
5.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.3"
7.8 days with precipitation
Blackfoot Fire Dept spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 18% of the annual total and December through February 23%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Blackfoot Fire Dept has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 47.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 1.8" and July 0.5". The three wettest months together take 35% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Blackfoot Fire Dept is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 73 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 20% of the calendar, and they carry 12.1" between them. At roughly 0.16 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is April at about 9 wet days; the driest is July at about 3.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Winter brings real snow to Blackfoot Fire Dept
Blackfoot Fire Dept averages 14.7 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 11 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 14.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 11 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 12% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 5
50% probability date
Growing Season
151 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,990
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
519
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to Blackfoot Fire Dept on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (47°F here).
- Amboy, MN 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Burton, MI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Concord, NH 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Atkinson, WI 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (12.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Seligman, AZ 12.1" · 0.0" off
- Navajo Dam, NM 12.1" · 0.0" off
- Long Beach, CA 12.0" · 0.0" off
- Camarillo, CA 12.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Blackfoot Fire Dept
heating led · dry · mid swing
Blackfoot Fire Dept's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,990 annual heating degree days against 519 for cooling. Its 47.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Blackfoot Fire Dept's frost-free season lasts about 151 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Blackfoot Fire Dept coldest normal
January
Averaging 24°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Blackfoot Fire Dept typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Blackfoot Fire Dept snow peak
January
Blackfoot Fire Dept averages 14.7 inches of snow a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Blackfoot Fire Dept's primary station: BLACKFOOT FIRE DEPT (USC00100915). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Blackfoot Fire Dept; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Blackfoot Fire Dept comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.