Buckhead Ridge, Florida — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Buckhead Ridge, Glades County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
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, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.