Dyer is a census-designated place located in Fish Lake Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States.

[3] The town serves the surrounding area's sparse rural population of mainly ranchers and indigenous Paiute people.

Dyer is located on State Route 264, near Nevada's border with California.

[9] The Köppen Climate System classifies the weather in this area as semi-arid, abbreviated BSk.

This climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions.