Oil City, Louisiana Weather
Oil City, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Oil City, Caddo Parish.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Oil City.
About Oil City, Louisiana
Oil City rests low, a landscape of languid bayous and whispering pines that hum with the humid breath of summer. It lies 19.9 miles north-west of Shreveport, LA (from Shreveport, LA: bearing 320°T), and is situated 8.9 miles south of Vivian. The air, thick and sweet with the scent of damp earth and unseen blossoms, hangs heavy over the terrain, a place where the land sighs and exhales with the changing seasons. Cypress knees, gnarled like ancient knuckles, break the dark surface of slow-moving water, their reflections distorted in the glassy sheen. Sunlight filters through the dense canopy in shifting patterns, painting ephemeral mosaics on the moss-draped branches, a quiet luminescence that imbues even the mundane with a certain grace. This is a country of patient rivers, their currents carrying secrets from forgotten fields, and of skies that can turn from a pale, washed-out blue to a bruised, dramatic violet as dusk descends. The very name Oil City speaks of a history etched not in stone but in the dark, viscous bounty drawn from beneath the soil. This stretch of Caddo Parish once pulsed with the feverish rhythm of the oil boom, a time when derricks pierced the sky like metallic reeds and fortunes were made and lost in the dust and din. Though the peak of that era has long since passed, the legacy remains in the resilient spirit of its people and the quiet hum of ongoing industry that still underpins the local economy. Life here moves with a measured cadence, a gentle ebb and flow dictated by the river's mood and the sun's arc across the sky, a distinct character shaped by the enduring presence of water and the enduring memory of black gold.
Live animated radar for Oil City and surroundings — RainViewer.
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| Location | Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 32.744032°N, 93.97157°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71061 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Oil City, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Oil City, Louisiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Oil City includes coordinates 32.744032°N, 93.971570°W, situated in Caddo Parish. ZIP code 71061. Telephone area code: 318. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
