Ridgeway, North Carolina Weather
Ridgeway, 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 Ridgeway, Warren County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Ridgeway. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Ridgeway is published on the Henderson Oxford Airport (KHNZ) page, 27 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 Ridgeway 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 Ridgeway: Mecklenburg Brunswick Regional Airport (KAVC) 32 km · Lake Country Regional Airport (KW63) 34 km · Chase City Municipal Airport (KCXE) 46 km · Triangle North Executive Airport (KLHZ) 47 km · Brunswick Municipal Airport (KLVL) 55 km
Conditions reported at KHNZ describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ridgeway specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ridgeway.
About Ridgeway, North Carolina
Ridgeway lies in Warren County, a place where the land gently rolls and then rises, hinting at the distant Piedmont, its fields a patchwork of sun-baked earth and vibrant green, the air thick with the humid breath of summer and the scent of pine. It lies 35.0 miles north-north-east of Wake Forest, NC (from Wake Forest, NC: bearing 26°T), and is situated 2.2 miles west-south-west of Norlina. The sky here often stretches wide and pale, an endless canvas where clouds drift like slow thoughts, and the late afternoon light can cast a honeyed glaze over the scattered farmhouses and the quiet roads that thread through the landscape. Oak trees, ancient and gnarled, stand sentinel along the hedgerows, their branches a dark lacework against the bright sky, and in the distance, the dense woods hold a cool, shadowed stillness. This quiet corner of North Carolina carries the deep imprint of its agricultural past, where tobacco fields once dominated, and the echoes of that labor still linger in the weathered barns and the quiet pride of generations who worked this soil. The local economy, though diversified now, still feels the pulse of the land, with farming remaining a significant thread in its fabric, alongside small businesses that serve the needs of the surrounding countryside. Ridgeway itself, though modest, possesses a certain resilient charm, a place where the pace of life allows for observation, for noticing the way the light falls through the leaves of a maple or the subtle shift in the wind before a rain.
Live animated radar for Ridgeway 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 | Ridgeway, Warren County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.435701°N, 78.236661°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 27563, 27570 |
| Area Code | 919, 984 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ridgeway, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ridgeway, 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 Ridgeway includes coordinates 36.435701°N, 78.236661°W, situated in Warren County. ZIP code 27563, 27570. Telephone area code: 919, 984. 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.
