Crawford, Indiana Weather
Crawford, Indiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Crawford, Lawrence County.
Full aviation weather for Crawford is published on the Virgil I Grissom Municipal Airport (KBFR) 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. 6 airfields within reach of Crawford 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 Crawford: Orleans Airport (K7I4) 21 km · Paoli Municipal Airport (KI42) 30 km · Salem Municipal Airport (KI83) 34 km · Monroe County Airport (KBMG) 38 km · French Lick Municipal Airport (KFRH) 43 km
Conditions reported at KBFR describe the airfield itself. Weather 4 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Crawford specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Crawford.
About Crawford, Indiana
Crawford rests in a fold of southern Indiana's rolling terrain, where the land begins its gentle descent toward the Ohio River Valley. It lies 23.1 miles south-south-east of Bloomington, IN (from Bloomington, IN: bearing 163°T), and is situated 5.0 miles east-south-east of Bedford. The air here, especially after a summer rain, carries the damp, earthy scent of rich soil and the faint sweetness of honeysuckle clinging to weathered fences. Fields of corn and soybeans, their stalks a vibrant green under the wide sky, stretch out towards the horizon, broken by stands of oak and maple that whisper secrets in the wind. The few roads that thread through Crawford are paved with a practical grey, worn smooth by seasons of slow travel, and the houses, often simple and sturdy, seem to blend into the landscape as if grown there, their porches offering a quiet invitation to pause. The history of Crawford is tied to the earth, to the clearing of forests and the cultivation of fertile ground. Once, the land whispered with the sounds of logging and the industry that followed, but now the economy leans more towards agriculture, with local farmers tending to the land that has sustained families for generations. A sense of quiet continuity pervades Crawford; life moves at a pace dictated by the sun and the seasons, not the insistent ticking of a clock. The nearby Salt Creek offers a touch of cool water, a place for reflection, and the occasional flash of a kingfisher’s brilliant blue as it darts across the surface.
Live animated radar for Crawford 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 | Crawford, Lawrence County, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 38.845885°N, 86.397212°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 47421, 47516 |
| Area Code | 317, 812 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Crawford, Indiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crawford, Indiana, 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 Crawford includes coordinates 38.845885°N, 86.397212°W, situated in Lawrence County. ZIP code 47421, 47516. Telephone area code: 317, 812. 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.
