Oak Hills, Iowa Weather
Oak Hills, Iowa — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Oak Hills, Des Moines County.
Full aviation weather for Oak Hills is published on the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport (KBRL) page, 3 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 Oak Hills 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 Oak Hills: Fort Madison Municipal Airport (KFSW) 19 km · Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport (KMPZ) 37 km · Keokuk Municipal Airport (KEOK) 41 km · Monmouth Municipal Airport (KC66) 47 km · Macomb Municipal Airport (KMQB) 50 km
Conditions reported at KBRL describe the airfield itself. Weather 3 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Oak Hills specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Oak Hills.
About Oak Hills, Iowa
Oak Hills spreads across a landscape of gentle, rolling terrain, where broad fields of corn and soybeans give way to scattered woodlands. It lies 42.6 miles west-south-west of Galesburg, IL (from Galesburg, IL: bearing 253°T), and is situated 3.7 miles south-south-west of Burlington. The land here, a rich, dark loam, exhales a quiet fertility, especially in the late afternoon when the sun, low in the sky, casts long, honeyed shadows across the cultivated acres. Ancient oaks, their branches gnarled like the hands of time, punctuate the horizons, their leaves rustling with secrets carried on the prairie breeze. The air itself carries a subtle sweetness, a blend of tilled earth and the distant scent of ripening grain, a constant reminder of the agricultural heart that beats at Oak Hills. The history of Oak Hills is deeply entwined with the fertile soil and the hardworking families who have coaxed sustenance from it for generations. Once, this land was part of a vast prairie, its silence broken only by the wind and the calls of unseen creatures. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of prosperity, established farms and a small community that grew organically, shaped by the rhythms of the seasons. The local economy, still largely agrarian, is supported by the cultivation of crops and livestock, with small businesses in the heart of Oak Hills serving the needs of the surrounding farms. A particular charm of Oak Hills lies in its unhurried pace, the sense that life unfolds with a deliberate grace, a stark contrast to the clamor of more hurried places.
Live animated radar for Oak Hills 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 | Oak Hills, Des Moines County, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 40.760317°N, 91.147955°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 52601 |
| Area Code | 712 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Oak Hills, Iowa Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oak Hills, Iowa, 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 Oak Hills includes coordinates 40.760317°N, 91.147955°W, situated in Des Moines County. ZIP code 52601. Telephone area code: 712. 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.
