Burr Oak, Kansas Weather
Burr Oak, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Burr Oak, Jewell County.
Full aviation weather for Burr Oak is published on the Mankato Airport (KTKO) page, 10 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 Burr Oak 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 Burr Oak: Superior Municipal Airport (K12K) 29 km · Red Cloud Municipal Airport (K7V7) 31 km · Smith Center Municipal Airport (KK82) 43 km · Moritz Memorial Airport (KK61) 46 km · Belleville Municipal Airport (KRPB) 55 km
Conditions reported at KTKO describe the airfield itself. Weather 10 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Burr Oak specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Burr Oak.
About Burr Oak, Kansas
Burr Oak lies under a wide, indifferent sky, a scattering of buildings clinging to the prairie's edge. It lies 49.9 miles south of Hastings, NE (from Hastings, NE: bearing 175°T), and is situated 7.4 miles north-west of Mankato. The land here is a patient expanse of wheat and corn, stretching to horizons that seem to breathe with the coming and going of weather. Gentle swells in the terrain, subtle as a sleeping giant’s breath, give way to flatter stretches where the wind has its own dominion, rustling through the stalks with a sound like whispered secrets. Dust motes dance in the shafts of late afternoon sun, painting the air with a golden haze that softens the sharp angles of silos and the weathered wood of farmhouses. The silence here is not empty, but full of the hum of insects and the distant rumble of a tractor, a quiet symphony of rural existence. The history of Burr Oak is written in the soil and the resilience of its people, a story woven from the steady rhythm of agricultural cycles. For generations, this locality has drawn its lifeblood from the fertile earth, the economy tethered to the success of its crops, a dependent dance with rain and sun. Occasional echoes of earlier settlements linger, perhaps in the names of long-gone homesteads or the faint scars on the landscape from forgotten roads, hints of a past that shaped the present. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist attractions, but rather a profound sense of place, a quiet dignity found in the enduring spirit of those who have made Burr Oak their home, their lives a testament to the enduring power of the prairie.
Live animated radar for Burr Oak 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 | Burr Oak, Jewell County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 39.866124°N, 98.305053°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66936 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Burr Oak, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Burr Oak, Kansas, 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 Burr Oak includes coordinates 39.866124°N, 98.305053°W, situated in Jewell County. ZIP code 66936. Telephone area code: 913. 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.
