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So, I am using _FillValue=65535 in the encoding to to_netcdf.

encoding is really an instruction to Xarray to encode the data. But you've already done that. So specify _FillValue in attrs instead of encoding. This will get written to file and be interpreted on read. At least IIUC =) 

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