Buckhead Ridge, Florida Weather
Buckhead Ridge, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Buckhead Ridge, Glades County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Buckhead Ridge. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Buckhead Ridge is published on the Okeechobee County Airport (KOBE) page, 15 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. 3 airfields within reach of Buckhead Ridge 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 Buckhead Ridge: Citrus Hedging Ranch Airport (K9FD) 29 km · Indiantown Airport (KX58) 46 km
Conditions reported at KOBE describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Buckhead Ridge specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Buckhead Ridge.
About Buckhead Ridge, Florida
Buckhead Ridge exists as a quiet exhale in the Glades County landscape, a place where the flat, sandy earth stretches out under a sky that seems impossibly vast, often tinged with the fiery hues of a setting sun. It lies 33.2 miles west-south-west of Saint Lucie West, FL (from Saint Lucie West, FL: bearing 246°T), and is situated 8.8 miles south-south-west of Okeechobee. Palmettos, hardy and resilient, cluster in scattered groves, their fronds a muted green against the ochre soil, and the air hangs heavy and humid, carrying the distant scent of damp earth and flowering weeds. Occasional stands of pine, their needles whispering secrets in the breeze, punctuate the horizon, and the silence here is not an absence but a presence, a thick, palpable blanket broken only by the drone of insects or the sudden, startling cry of a distant bird. The history of Buckhead Ridge is not etched in grand monuments but in the slow, persistent turning of seasons and the quiet labor of its people. This is land that has long been shaped by agriculture, where the cultivation of crops, often under the relentless Florida sun, has defined its economic pulse for generations. The very soil here seems to hold the memory of countless harvests, of hands that have toiled to coax life from the sandy terrain, and the rhythm of life in Buckhead Ridge is one of patient endurance, a deep understanding of the land’s demands and its generous, if sometimes parched, offerings.
Live animated radar for Buckhead Ridge 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 | Buckhead Ridge, Glades County, Florida |
| Coordinates | 27.130328°N, 80.893674°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 34974 |
| Area Code | 239 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Buckhead Ridge, Florida Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Buckhead Ridge, Florida, 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 Buckhead Ridge includes coordinates 27.130328°N, 80.893674°W, situated in Glades County. ZIP code 34974. Telephone area code: 239. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
