Tickfaw, Louisiana Weather
Tickfaw, 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 Tickfaw, Tangipahoa Parish.
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About Tickfaw, Louisiana
Tickfaw rests on land that remembers the slow, deliberate flow of water, a gentle sag in the Louisiana terrain where the air hangs thick and sweet with the scent of pine and damp earth. It lies 5.2 miles north-north-west of Hammond, LA (from Hammond, LA: bearing 345°T), and is situated 9.9 miles north-north-west of Ponchatoula. Cypress knees, like gnarled knuckles, break the surface of the shallow, tea-colored bayous that thread through the landscape, their reflections blurring the dense green of the surrounding foliage. Sunlight, when it penetrates the canopy, falls in shifting, golden coins on the spongy ground, illuminating the unseen life that hums and rustles just beyond the visible. The very character of Tickfaw is shaped by this liquid embrace, a quiet persistence in the face of humidity that clings like a second skin. The history of Tickfaw is written not in grand monuments, but in the enduring agricultural pulse of the region, a legacy of sugarcane and cotton fields that once stretched to the horizon. This rhythm continues, though the economy has diversified, with trucking and local businesses now supporting the community, reflecting a broader shift in the rural South. There are whispers of older times, of the French and Spanish influences that shaped the very names of the bayous and creeks, a subtle layering of cultures beneath the surface of everyday life. For those who call Tickfaw home, there's a shared understanding, an unspoken connection to the land and its slow, enduring story, a quiet pride in their particular corner of Tangipahoa Parish.
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| Location | Tickfaw, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30.577412°N, 90.483146°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 70466 |
| Area Code | 985 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Tickfaw, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tickfaw, 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 Tickfaw includes coordinates 30.577412°N, 90.483146°W, situated in Tangipahoa Parish. ZIP code 70466. Telephone area code: 985. 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.
