Piney Creek, North Carolina Weather
Piney Creek, 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 Piney Creek, Alleghany County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Piney Creek. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Piney Creek is published on the Ashe County Airport (KGEV) page, 18 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 Piney Creek 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 Piney Creek: Mountain Empire Airport (KMKJ) 39 km · Wilkes County Airport (KUKF) 40 km · Twin County Airport (KHLX) 48 km · Johnson County Airport (K6A4) 50 km · Elkin Municipal Airport (KZEF) 54 km
Conditions reported at KGEV describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Piney Creek specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Piney Creek.
About Piney Creek, North Carolina
Piney Creek lies in a place where the mountains begin to fold, their slopes a deep, shadowed green that deepens with the approaching evening. It lies 45.0 miles east-north-east of Carter, TN (from Carter, TN: bearing 78°T), and is situated 9.8 miles west-north-west of Sparta. The air here carries a faint, cool scent of damp earth and pine needles, a constant reminder of the dense forests that climb the hillsides. The landscape is a study in verticality and shadow, with narrow valleys where the creek itself, a ribbon of clear, cold water, makes its way. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, falls in luminous shafts, illuminating patches of moss-covered rock and the occasional hardy fern clinging to a rocky outcrop. The terrain is rugged, demanding, a place where the land itself feels like a character, ancient and unyielding. Historically, the economy of Piney Creek has been tied to the earth and its bounty. For generations, logging and small-scale farming were the lifeblood, with families carving out livelihoods from the dense woodlands and fertile pockets of soil. The echoes of this past can still be felt in the quiet persistence of the residents, a grounded resilience born from working with the land. While modern industries have made inroads, the character of Piney Creek remains rooted in its agricultural heritage, evident in the well-tended gardens and the occasional roadside stand offering fresh produce. There's a palpable sense of continuity here, a quiet understanding of seasons and cycles that shapes the rhythm of daily life.
Live animated radar for Piney Creek 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 | Piney Creek, Alleghany County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.550403°N, 81.288707°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28663 |
| Area Code | 828 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Piney Creek, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Piney Creek, 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 Piney Creek includes coordinates 36.550403°N, 81.288707°W, situated in Alleghany County. ZIP code 28663. Telephone area code: 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.
