Edgewood, Illinois Weather
Edgewood, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Edgewood, Boone County.
Full aviation weather for Edgewood is published on the Poplar Grove Airport (KC77) page, 12 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. 6 airfields within reach of Edgewood 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 Edgewood: Beloit Airport (K44C) 29 km · Dacy Airport (K0C0) 30 km · Galt Field (K10C) 48 km · Lake in the Hills Airport (K3CK) 49 km · Lake Lawn Airport (KC59) 51 km
Conditions reported at KC77 describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Edgewood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Edgewood.
About Edgewood, Illinois
Edgewood lies in a land of broad horizons, where the sky feels impossibly vast, a deep, washed-out blue under the summer sun. It lies 9.1 miles east-south-east of Rockford, IL (from Rockford, IL: bearing 103°T), and is situated 4.2 miles west-south-west of Belvidere. The terrain here is a patient, rolling expanse, sculpted by millennia of wind and water into gentle swells and shallow valleys. Fields of corn and soybeans stretch out like rumpled green and gold carpets, their edges blurring into the distant, tree-lined property lines that mark the boundaries of farms. The air, especially in the early morning or late afternoon, carries a clean, earthy scent, a blend of tilled soil and the sweet perfume of ripening crops. In the quiet of dusk, the light softens, casting long, attenuated shadows that stretch and warp across the fields, turning the ordinary landscape into something momentarily profound. The story of Edgewood is one of agricultural persistence and the quiet strength of rural life. For generations, the land has been the primary employer, its fertile soil yielding bountiful harvests that have sustained families and shaped the local economy. The rhythm of planting and harvesting dictates the pulse of Edgewood, a predictable cycle that has seen the community through booms and busts. While no grand monuments punctuate the skyline, the enduring farmsteads, with their weathered barns and silos reaching towards the heavens, stand as silent testaments to the dedication of those who have worked this ground. The distinctive character of Edgewood is etched not in stone, but in the shared understanding of the seasons, the neighbourly spirit that blooms in times of need, and the unwavering connection to the earth that defines life here.
Live animated radar for Edgewood 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 | Edgewood, Boone County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 42.241132°N, 88.920935°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61016, 62426 |
| Area Code | 847, 224, 217 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Edgewood, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Edgewood, Illinois, 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 Edgewood includes coordinates 42.241132°N, 88.920935°W, situated in Boone County. ZIP code 61016, 62426. Telephone area code: 847, 224, 217. 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.
