Oakhaven, Arkansas Weather
Oakhaven, Arkansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Oakhaven, Hempstead County.
Full aviation weather for Oakhaven is published on the Hope Municipal Airport (KM18) page, 4 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 5 airfields within reach of Oakhaven have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Oakhaven: Kizer Field (K4F7) 25 km · Howard County Airport (KM77) 36 km · Texarkana Regional Airport (Webb Field) (KTXK) 46 km · Gurdon Lowe Field (K5M8) 47 km
Conditions reported at KM18 describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Oakhaven specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Oakhaven.
About Oakhaven, Arkansas
Oakhaven rests in a landscape of rolling hills and fertile bottomlands, a testament to the slow, persistent work of water and wind across the Arkansas soil. It lies 31.2 miles north-east of Texarkana, AR (from Texarkana, AR: bearing 50°T), and is situated 4.6 miles north-north-west of Hope. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a humid sweetness, a blend of sun-baked earth and the faint, distant scent of pine. Mature oaks, their branches gnarled like ancient knuckles, punctuate the fields and line the quiet roads, their leaves a deep, resonant green that deepens to near-black as dusk begins to bleed into the sky. The land itself feels substantial, grounded, with a subtle slope that guides the infrequent rains toward the meandering creeks that thread through the countryside, their banks often softened by a fringe of cattails and whispering reeds. The history of Oakhaven is intertwined with the agricultural bounty of Hempstead County, a place where the cultivation of cotton once dictated the rhythm of life. While the fields still bear the signs of recent harvests, their golden stubble catching the low sun, the economic pulse has diversified. Small businesses, often family-run, now form the backbone of the local commerce, their storefronts bearing the quiet dignity of endurance. You can still see the faint outlines of older structures, the ghost of a wider road, remnants of a time when Oakhaven was a more central hub for the surrounding farms, a place where goods were traded and news exchanged with the slow, deliberate pace of rural communication. A particular quietude pervades the evenings, broken only by the chirping of crickets and the occasional distant hum of a passing vehicle, a sound that seems to emphasize the vast, starlit expanse overhead.
Live animated radar for Oakhaven and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Oakhaven, Hempstead County, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 33.729283°N, 93.620734°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71801 |
| Area Code | 870 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Oakhaven, Arkansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oakhaven, Arkansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Oakhaven includes coordinates 33.729283°N, 93.620734°W, situated in Hempstead County. ZIP code 71801. Telephone area code: 870. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
