The Fox plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
−37° on Nov. 17, 2011, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1962. Next is −35° in 2003.
Fox’s center stands about 760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 670 ft to 1,930 ft, a difference of 1,260 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pedro Dome, about 2,600 ft, 6 miles north-northeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 10×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Fox has a subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 72° in July; winter nights fall to about −12° in January. A normal year brings about 53 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 15 inches of water.
On November 14 Fox normally reaches 14° and falls to −2°. The record high is 43°, in 1976; the record low −26°, in 2006. The most rain on this date, 0.30 in, fell in 2013.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1962 at Gilmore Creek, 3 miles east-northeast, 180 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.