Kirkwood, Illinois Weather
Kirkwood, Illinois — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Kirkwood, Warren County.
Full aviation weather for Kirkwood is published on the Monmouth Municipal Airport (KC66) 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 Kirkwood 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 Kirkwood: Galesburg Municipal Airport (KGBG) 28 km · Southeast Iowa Regional Airport (KBRL) 33 km · Macomb Municipal Airport (KMQB) 39 km · Mercer County Airport (KC00) 43 km · Fort Madison Municipal Airport (KFSW) 54 km
Conditions reported at KC66 describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Kirkwood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Kirkwood.
About Kirkwood, Illinois
Kirkwood, Illinois, breathes with the quiet expanse of western Illinois, where the land rolls not in dramatic swells, but in the patient, rounded contours of a landscape shaped by millennia of wind and water. It lies 20.5 miles west-south-west of Galesburg, IL (from Galesburg, IL: bearing 254°T), and is situated 6.1 miles west-south-west of Monmouth. The sky here feels vast, a generous dome that stretches to meet the horizon, often painted with the subtle, bruised purples and soft golds of a prairie sunset. Fields of corn and soybeans, emerald in the summer and a rich, stubbled brown in the autumn, claim the gentle slopes, punctuated by the darker, more tenacious green of scattered woodlands along the intermittent creeks and drainage ditches that thread through the terrain. The air carries the clean scent of turned earth and the distant hum of agricultural machinery, a constant, unobtrusive soundtrack to the day. The history of Kirkwood is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of those who worked this fertile ground. Founded by settlers drawn to the rich prairie soil, its economy has long been tethered to agriculture, with grain elevators standing as stoic sentinels along the railroad tracks that once pulsed with the lifeblood of commerce. The town retains a palpable sense of community, a place where neighbors still recognize one another and the pace of life allows for unhurried conversations on front porches. Though the iron horse of industry has long since quieted, the legacy of hard work and resilience remains, a quiet strength that underpins the character of Kirkwood.
Live animated radar for Kirkwood 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.
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| Location | Kirkwood, Warren County, Illinois |
| Coordinates | 40.865872°N, 90.74847°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 61447 |
| Area Code | 815 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Kirkwood, Illinois Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kirkwood, 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 Kirkwood includes coordinates 40.865872°N, 90.748470°W, situated in Warren County. ZIP code 61447. Telephone area code: 815. 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.
