Buchtel, Ohio Weather
Buchtel, Ohio — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Buchtel, Athens County.
Full aviation weather for Buchtel is published on the Perry County Airport (KI86) page, 26 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. 4 airfields within reach of Buchtel 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 Buchtel: Vinton County Airport (K22I) 27 km · Ohio University Airport (KUNI) 28 km · Fairfield County Airport (KLHQ) 52 km
Conditions reported at KI86 describe the airfield itself. Weather 26 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Buchtel specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Buchtel.
About Buchtel, Ohio
Buchtel rests in a hollow, a place where the Appalachian foothills begin their gentle, rolling descent into the Hocking River valley. It lies 28.2 miles south-east of Lancaster, OH (from Lancaster, OH: bearing 128°T), and is situated 2.7 miles east of Nelsonville. The air here, especially after a rain, carries the scent of damp earth and the evergreen tang of scattered pines that cling to the steep slopes. Roads, narrow and winding, follow the contours of the land, sometimes disappearing into the deep green of mature oak and maple forests that press in on either side. The sky, when it breaks free of the trees, often appears a vast, pale blue, a serene canvas above the shadowed hollows. Small farms, their fields cleared in patches like emerald islands in a sea of woodland, dot the landscape, their weathered barns leaning with a quiet dignity against the persistent rise and fall of the terrain. The character of Buchtel is deeply tied to the earth and the labor it once yielded. Coal mining was the lifeblood of this locality for many decades, its boom and bust cycles leaving an indelible mark, not just on the landscape with its abandoned shafts and spoil heaps, but in the very spirit of its people. A quiet resilience, a practical stoicism, seems to infuse the everyday routines here, a legacy of generations who worked the seams of the earth. While the mines are largely silent now, the echoes of that industry remain, a subtle undercurrent in the local economy which has diversified into small businesses and a continued reliance on the land for sustenance and a slower way of life. The nearby Hocking Hills State Park, a popular destination for its dramatic rock formations and cascading waterfalls, draws visitors who often find themselves pausing in Buchtel, a quiet waypoint on the journey into the more dramatic natural wonders of southeastern Ohio.
Live animated radar for Buchtel 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.
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| Location | Buchtel, Athens County, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 39.462015°N, 82.181814°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 45716 |
| Area Code | 937 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Buchtel, Ohio Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Buchtel, Ohio, 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 Buchtel includes coordinates 39.462015°N, 82.181814°W, situated in Athens County. ZIP code 45716. Telephone area code: 937. 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.
