United States · elevation 3191 ft AMSL
· 44.7342, -103.8620
Belle Fourche Municipal Airport is an airport with the ICAO code KEFC. Country: United States. Nearest settlement listed in the database: Belle Fourche. OurAirports classifies it as a small airport. Its ICAO code starts with the KE prefix, which marks airports in United States. No IATA code is assigned, which is typical for airports without scheduled traffic. The airport reference point sits at 44°44'03"N, 103°51'43"W, at an elevation of 3,191 ft (973 m) above sea level. The applicable time zone is America/Denver.
Aerial imagery showing the runway and apron layout - the zoom is matched to the longest runway.
| Threshold | Course | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 140° | 1,372 m (4,501 ft) | 18 m (60 ft) | asphalt |
| 32 | 320° | |||
| 18 | 180° | 1,109 m (3,639 ft) | 37 m (120 ft) | grass |
| 36 | 360° |
The course is derived from the runway designator (number × 10), not from a survey - the actual magnetic bearing can differ by a few degrees.
Declared distances (TORA, TODA, ASDA, LDA) are published in the national AIP - they are not part of this table.
According to OurAirports data (compiled from AIP and FAA sources), Belle Fourche Municipal Airport has 2 runways: 14/32 - 1,372 m long (4,501 ft), 18 m wide, asphalt surface; 18/36 - 1,109 m long (3,639 ft), 37 m wide, grass surface.
The longest of them is 14/32, at 1,372 m.
The airport combines paved and grass surfaces: 1 paved and 1 grass runway each.
The thresholds are oriented as follows: 14/32 on 140° and 320° magnetic, 18/36 on 180° and 360° magnetic. A threshold designator is its magnetic heading divided by ten (ICAO Annex 14), so the runway axis can be read straight off the numbers.
For the 14/32 axis, wind from the south-west (around 230°) or from the north-east (around 50°) blows perpendicular to the runway and produces the largest crosswind component. Wind from around 140° or 320° acts along the runway, as a headwind or a tailwind. The decoder on this page computes those components automatically from the current METAR.
Weather reports for Belle Fourche Municipal Airport are published under the ICAO code KEFC. A METAR is an observation of current conditions, usually issued every 30 or 60 minutes; a TAF is a forecast for the airport area, typically covering 9 to 30 hours.
The decoder breaks the KEFC report down into its parts: wind direction and speed including gusts and variability, visibility (including CAVOK and directional minimum visibility), weather phenomena by WMO code, cloud layers with their bases, temperature and dew point, QNH pressure, and the resulting flight category - VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR - using FAA thresholds.
Not every airport issues its own reports; many smaller airfields have no weather station. If no current data is available for KEFC, check the nearby airports listed below.
Reports always use UTC (the Z suffix). The America/Denver zone is GMT-07:00 in winter and GMT-06:00 in summer - that is the shift to apply to the time in the report to get local time at the airport.
The closest airports in the database, measured in a straight line from the reference point, are Black Hills Airport-Clyde Ice Field (Spearfish) (KSPF, 29 km), Ellsworth Air Force Base (Rapid City) (KRCA, 89 km), Rapid City Regional Airport (KRAP, 100 km). When no report is available for KEFC, they usually give the best approximation of conditions in the area.
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