Plaucheville, Louisiana Weather
Plaucheville, 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 Plaucheville, Avoyelles Parish.
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About Plaucheville, Louisiana
Plaucheville rests in the broad, fertile heart of Avoyelles Parish, a place where the land itself seems to breathe with a quiet, agricultural rhythm. It lies 36.4 miles south-east of Alexandria, LA (from Alexandria, LA: bearing 131°T), and is situated 4.4 miles east-south-east of Cottonport. The air here carries the sweet, damp scent of rich soil, especially after a summer rain, and the sky stretches wide and pale blue above fields of sugarcane and cotton that ripple like a green and white sea under the Louisiana sun. Ancient oaks, their branches draped with Spanish moss like the beards of forgotten sages, stand sentinel along the edges of the flat, open country, their roots anchoring the land against the slow, inexorable flow of nearby waterways. The character of Plaucheville is one of quiet resilience, a steadfastness born of generations who have worked this earth, their lives intimately bound to the cycles of planting and harvest, the gentle cadence of the seasons dictating the tempo of existence. The history of Plaucheville is deeply interwoven with the cultivation of the fertile delta soil, a story of French colonial beginnings that evolved into a robust agricultural economy centered on sugarcane. This legacy is still evident in the enduring presence of family farms, many bearing names that have been synonymous with the land for over a century, their weathered barns and silos standing as quiet monuments to enduring labor. The local economy, while diversified, still finds its strongest pulse in the bounty of the fields, the hum of tractors and the distant rumble of harvesting machinery a familiar soundtrack to the days. While not a place of grand pronouncements or bustling tourist throngs, Plaucheville possesses a distinctive charm in its unpretentious authenticity, a place where the genuine warmth of its people is as palpable as the humid embrace of a Louisiana evening.
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| Location | Plaucheville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.965467°N, 91.981787°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71362 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Plaucheville, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Plaucheville, 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 Plaucheville includes coordinates 30.965467°N, 91.981787°W, situated in Avoyelles Parish. ZIP code 71362. 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.
