Wild Horse Rsvr, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Wild Horse Rsvr's primary NOAA station, WILD HORSE RSVR.
The climate verdict for Wild Horse Rsvr
Dryness leads the climate profile for Wild Horse Rsvr, Nevada, with 12.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 40°F. At 35/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 4% of scores.
- 40°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 35/100
- comfort score, above 4% of station-mapped location scores
- 12.8"
- annual precipitation · 117" snow
Wild Horse Rsvr: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00269072 · Wild Horse Rsvr, NV 40°F mean · 12.8" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 40°F
- RANK-COOL #343
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Blue Mesa Lake
- PRCP-DRY 12.8"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-LOW 35/100
- LOAD-HEAT 9,200 HDD
- STN-1 USC00269072
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Blue Mesa Lake, CO ( -0.2 °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 NV station list.
- Wild Horse Rsvr (this station) 40°F
- Cold Olney, MT 40°F
- Hot Moosehead, ME 40°F
- Near Blue Mesa Lake, CO 40°F
- Near Valdez Wso, AK 40°F
Climate Living Index · Wild Horse Rsvr
Wild Horse Rsvr: 6/100 · grade F
Wild Horse Rsvr publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Wild Horse Rsvr, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 35/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 12.8 in · 22.2 from 35 in | 21/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 39.9°F · 27.6° from 67.5°F | 4/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 256 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 117.0 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Wild Horse Rsvr · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Wild Horse Rsvr is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 18.8°F and warmest-month mean 62.8°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 62.8°F
- Coldest month
- 18.8°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 Wild Horse Rsvr sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Wild Horse Rsvr's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 95%
- Among 6,861 stations, Wild Horse Rsvr sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 88%
- Wild Horse Rsvr's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 53rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Wild Horse Rsvr compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Wild Horse Rsvr's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
35 4th percentile score exceeds 4% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°F (0°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 1.7" | 27.8" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 36°F (2°C) | 8°F (-14°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.0" | 16.7" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 44°F (7°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 1.2" | 14.9" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 52°F (11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 1.4" | 12.9" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 62°F (17°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.6" | 3.9" | 19.8 | 0.0 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.8" | 0.4" | 11.1 | 0.8 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 3.9 | 7.3 |
| August | 83°F (29°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 6.9 | 3.6 |
| September | 74°F (23°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.6" | 0.3" | 19.0 | 0.4 |
| October | 60°F (15°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 0.8" | 2.2" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 1.1" | 14.3" | 28.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 20°F (-6°C) | 1.7" | 23.6" | 30.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 26, short of 90°F on every date, while 256 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 4°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 23, then returns to freezing around September 11, covering 256 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 January 8, when 37% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 20 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 97 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 21 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 45°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Wild Horse Rsvr.
Where Wild Horse Rsvr Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 256 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 45°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Wild Horse Rsvr earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 27.8"
11.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.7"
9.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.9"
10.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.9"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.9"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
6.0 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
4.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.2"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.3"
8.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 23.6"
10.8 days with precipitation
Wild Horse Rsvr spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 13% of the annual total and December through February 34%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Wild Horse Rsvr has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 44°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: January averages 1.7" and August 0.4". The three wettest months together take 39% 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.
Wild Horse Rsvr is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 96 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 26% of the calendar, and they carry 12.8" between them. At roughly 0.13 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 January at about 12 wet days; the driest is August at about 4.
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 Wild Horse Rsvr
Wild Horse Rsvr averages 117.0 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 47 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: 117.0 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 47 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 91% 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
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,200
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
63
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Wild Horse Rsvr 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 (40°F here).
- Sand Point, AK 40°F · 0.0°F off
- Towner, ND 40°F · 0.0°F off
- Ada, MN 40°F · 0.1°F off
- Carrington, ND 40°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (12.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Green Valley, AZ 12.8" · 0.0" off
- Pendleton, OR 12.8" · 0.0" off
- Hope, NM 12.9" · 0.0" off
- Redlands, CA 12.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Wild Horse Rsvr
heating led · dry · mid swing
Wild Horse Rsvr's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,200 annual heating degree days against 63 for cooling. Its 44.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Wild Horse Rsvr. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
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1. Wild Horse Rsvr coldest normal
January
Averaging 19°F (-7°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Wild Horse Rsvr typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Wild Horse Rsvr snow peak
January
Wild Horse Rsvr averages 117.0 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 Wild Horse Rsvr's primary station: WILD HORSE RSVR (USC00269072). 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 Wild Horse Rsvr; 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 Wild Horse Rsvr 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.