Forest Hills, North Carolina Weather
Forest Hills, North Carolina — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Forest Hills, Wilkes County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Forest Hills. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Forest Hills is published on the Wilkes County Airport (KUKF) page, 9 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Forest Hills have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Forest Hills: Elkin Municipal Airport (KZEF) 35 km · Ashe County Airport (KGEV) 40 km · Statesville Regional Airport (KSVH) 46 km · Hickory Regional Airport (KHKY) 50 km · Foothills Regional Airport (KMRN) 56 km
Conditions reported at KUKF describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Forest Hills specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Forest Hills.
About Forest Hills, North Carolina
Forest Hills unfolds like a rumpled quilt of emerald and ochre across the undulating terrain of Wilkes County. It lies 28.8 miles north-north-west of Statesville, NC (from Statesville, NC: bearing 331°T), and is situated 1.0 miles south-south-east of North Wilkesboro. Here, the air, often carrying the crisp scent of pine needles warmed by the sun, possesses a certain clarity, a transparency that allows the distant Blue Ridge Mountains to etch their jagged profiles against the vast canvas of the sky. The land itself seems to breathe with a slow, deliberate cadence, its slopes yielding to gentle valleys where creeks murmur secrets to moss-covered stones. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy of deciduous trees, paints shifting mosaics on the forest floor, a silent testament to the enduring wildness that still claims this place. The economic pulse of Forest Hills has long been tied to the earth, its history woven with the cultivation of tobacco and the bounty of its timbered slopes. Generations have learned the quiet satisfaction of coaxing sustenance from the soil, their lives shaped by the seasons and the predictable rhythms of rural industry. Though the landscape bears the subtle marks of human endeavor – the occasional weathered barn, the straight lines of fence posts – it retains a profound sense of its own being, a place where the past whispers in the rustle of leaves and the future feels as open as the wide, blue sky above.
Live animated radar for Forest Hills and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Forest Hills, Wilkes County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.14541°N, 81.139806°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28697, 27253, 27896, 28723 |
| Area Code | 919, 984, 828 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Forest Hills, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Forest Hills, North Carolina, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. 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 Forest Hills includes coordinates 36.145410°N, 81.139806°W, situated in Wilkes County. ZIP code 28697, 27253, 27896, 28723. Telephone area code: 919, 984, 828. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. 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.
