Freetown, Indiana Weather
Freetown, Indiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Freetown, Jackson County.
Full aviation weather for Freetown is published on the Freeman Municipal Airport (KSER) page, 20 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 Freetown 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 Freetown: Virgil I Grissom Municipal Airport (KBFR) 31 km · Columbus Municipal Airport (KBAK) 38 km · Salem Municipal Airport (KI83) 41 km · Himsel Army Airfield (KHBE) 42 km · Orleans Airport (K7I4) 44 km
Conditions reported at KSER describe the airfield itself. Weather 20 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Freetown specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Freetown.
About Freetown, Indiana
Freetown lies in a landscape shaped by the slow, persistent sculpting of water and time, where rolling hills, softened by the passage of seasons, give way to fertile bottomlands. It lies 19.3 miles south-west of Columbus, IN (from Columbus, IN: bearing 215°T), and is situated 8.0 miles north-west of Brownstown. The air here, especially in the hush of late afternoon, carries the scent of damp earth and ripening corn, a subtle perfume that clings to the quiet roads and the weathered clapboard houses. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid summer sky, doesn't so much dapple as pool in the hollows, illuminating the deep greens of the surrounding woodlands and casting long, languid shadows across fields of soybeans and wheat. The very character of Freetown seems etched in the gentle slope of the terrain, a place where the land itself dictates a slower, more deliberate pace. The story of Freetown is one of agricultural roots, a legacy of hardscrabble farming that has sustained families for generations. Early settlers, drawn by the rich soil deposited by the nearby waterways, carved out a life here, their resilience reflected in the sturdy barns and the enduring spirit of its people. While large-scale industry has largely bypassed this corner of Jackson County, the local economy still hums with the quiet industry of family farms, the occasional small business offering services to the surrounding countryside, and the dependable hum of machinery from the larger agricultural operations that dominate the horizon. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions; Freetown’s distinctiveness lies in its understated authenticity, a place where the echoes of a simpler past are still audible in the rustle of wind through the corn stalks and the distant lowing of cattle.
Live animated radar for Freetown 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 | Freetown, Jackson County, Indiana |
| Coordinates | 38.973107°N, 86.129428°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 47235 |
| Area Code | 317 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Freetown, Indiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Freetown, 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 Freetown includes coordinates 38.973107°N, 86.129428°W, situated in Jackson County. ZIP code 47235. Telephone area code: 317. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
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.
