Vicksburg, Michigan Weather
Vicksburg, Michigan — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Vicksburg, Kalamazoo County.
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About Vicksburg, Michigan
Vicksburg rests in a landscape of gentle swells and shadowed hollows, where the land sighs with the coming of autumn and exhales the sweet, damp scent of ripening fields. It lies 6.1 miles south-south-east of Portage, MI (from Portage, MI: bearing 157°T), and is situated 5.4 miles east of Schoolcraft. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a certain luminescence, a soft amber glow that gilds the silos and softens the edges of the weathered barns. Fields of corn, their stalks now brittle and whispering secrets to the wind, stretch towards distant stands of oak and maple, their leaves beginning their annual conflagration of reds and golds. Ditches along the quiet country roads are fringed with Queen Anne's lace, its delicate white umbrellas nodding in the breeze, a quiet beauty in the ordinary. The story of Vicksburg is a tale of water and ingenuity, of a place that harnessed the power of its streams to grow. Once a hub for the milling and manufacturing industries, the very essence of its early economy was tied to the flow of the Kalamazoo River's tributaries, their ceaseless movement powering the ambitions of its founders. Today, while the thrum of heavy industry has quieted, a spirit of resourceful agriculture persists, with orchards and farms still dotting the surrounding countryside, their bounty a familiar sight at local markets. The legacy of those early days can be felt in the sturdy brick buildings downtown, a quiet testament to a time when Vicksburg was a vital node in the region’s commercial arteries, a place where commerce and community flowed together like the very water that gave it life.
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| Location | Vicksburg, Kalamazoo County, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 42.120046°N, 85.532775°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 49097 |
| Area Code | 269 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Vicksburg, Michigan Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Vicksburg, Michigan, 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 Vicksburg includes coordinates 42.120046°N, 85.532775°W, situated in Kalamazoo County. ZIP code 49097. Telephone area code: 269. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/Detroit).
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.
