Wood Heights, Missouri — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Wood Heights, Ray County.
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Wood Heights unfolds across rolling terrain, a gentle swell and dip in the Missouri landscape where fields of corn and soybeans stretch towards horizons softened by distance. It lies 15.2 miles east-north-east of Liberty, MO (from Liberty, MO: bearing 65°T), and is situated 3.4 miles east of Excelsior Springs. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint, earthy sweetness, a blend of tilled soil and the distant breath of livestock. Oak and hickory trees, their branches reaching with a quiet stubbornness, punctuate the open spaces, offering slivers of shade that shift and lengthen as the sun descends. Roads, mostly gravel and a muted grey, wind through the undulations, leading past farmhouses whose paint, weathered by countless seasons, tells a silent story of endurance. This corner of Ray County, though unassuming, holds the quiet persistence of agrarian life, a history rooted in the fertile soil that has sustained generations of farmers. The local economy, as it has for decades, draws its lifeblood from the bounty of the land – crops that feed and livestock that are raised with a practiced hand. There are no grand monuments here, no bustling commercial centers, but a steady, unobtrusive character that speaks of a community built on hard work and the slow turning of seasons. Wood Heights remains a place where the rhythm of the day is still largely dictated by the needs of the farm and the fickle moods of the weather, a testament to a way of life that values continuity.
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| Location | Wood Heights, Ray County, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 39.339451°N, 94.162722°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 64024 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wood Heights, Missouri, 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 Wood Heights includes coordinates 39.339451°N, 94.162722°W, situated in Ray County. ZIP code 64024. Telephone area code: 816. 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.