Traphill, North Carolina Weather
Traphill, 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 Traphill, Wilkes County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Traphill. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Traphill is published on the Wilkes County Airport (KUKF) page, 15 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. 5 airfields within reach of Traphill 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 Traphill: Elkin Municipal Airport (KZEF) 23 km · Ashe County Airport (KGEV) 36 km · Mount Airy Surry County Airport (KMWK) 45 km · Twin County Airport (KHLX) 50 km
Conditions reported at KUKF describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Traphill specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Traphill.
About Traphill, North Carolina
Traphill rests in a fold of Wilkes County, where the land begins its earnest ascent toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 39.8 miles north-north-west of Statesville, NC (from Statesville, NC: bearing 348°T), and is situated 8.1 miles north-east of Hays. Here, the terrain is a generous, rolling canvas, painted with the deep greens of hardwood forests and the paler, more luminous hues of cultivated fields. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a cool, damp promise, smelling of rich earth and the faint, sweet tang of ripening apples. Creeks, often no more than a murmur, snake through the valleys, their water a clear, dark glass reflecting the overhanging boughs of oak and maple. The light, when it breaks through the canopy, has a soft, diffused quality, as if filtered through generations of quiet living. The history of Traphill is a story whispered by the land itself, tied to the hardy souls who first cleared these slopes and coaxed sustenance from the soil. For generations, agriculture has been the lifeblood, with tobacco and corn yielding to the subtle shifts in demand and the enduring allure of apples, now a significant part of the local economy, their orchards dotting the hillsides like constellations. The echoes of a simpler, more self-sufficient past are still palpable, a character woven into the fabric of Traphill through the enduring presence of family farms and the quiet pride of those who tend them. It is a place where the pace of life is measured not by the ticking of a clock, but by the turning of the seasons and the steady, dependable flow of the nearby waterways.
Live animated radar for Traphill 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 | Traphill, Wilkes County, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 36.346521°N, 81.03258°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 28685 |
| Area Code | 828 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Traphill, North Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Traphill, 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 Traphill includes coordinates 36.346521°N, 81.032580°W, situated in Wilkes County. ZIP code 28685. 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.
