Crooksville, Ohio Weather
Crooksville, Ohio — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Crooksville, Perry County.
Full aviation weather for Crooksville is published on the Perry County Airport (KI86) page, 12 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. 3 airfields within reach of Crooksville 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 Crooksville: Fairfield County Airport (KLHQ) 48 km · Vinton County Airport (K22I) 58 km
Conditions reported at KI86 describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Crooksville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Crooksville, Ohio
Crooksville rests in a shallow valley, its landscape a gentle dip and rise of Ohio's rolling terrain, a place where the air often carries the faint, earthy scent of damp soil after a rain. It lies 25.8 miles south-east of Newark, OH (from Newark, OH: bearing 141°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east-north-east of New Lexington. The surrounding hills, softened by years of cultivation and the slow march of deciduous forests, are a muted green in summer and blaze with ochre and crimson in the autumn, their slopes crisscrossed by the faint tracks of old logging roads. The Muskingum River, a broader, more languid presence, flows a short distance to the west, its waters reflecting the wide, often cloud-strewn sky, and the smaller streams that feed it cut small, intimate ravines through the softer earth, their banks thick with ferns and the tenacious roots of trees. The light here, especially in the late afternoon, can be astonishingly golden, bathing the modest homes and weathered storefronts in a warm, almost nostalgic glow. This corner of Perry County, Ohio, has long been shaped by the earth beneath its feet, its history entwined with the rich clay deposits that once fueled a thriving pottery industry, earning Crooksville the moniker "The Greatest Little Pottery Town in the World." For generations, the kilns here fired an abundance of earthenware, from utilitarian crocks to decorative art pieces, their distinctive glazes and forms recognized across the nation. While the large-scale ceramic factories have largely faded, the legacy of that industrious past lingers, a quiet pride in the skilled hands that once shaped the clay and a continuing, albeit smaller, presence of artisans who still find inspiration in the local materials. The economy now relies on a mix of smaller manufacturing and agricultural endeavors, with the land still yielding its bounty, a familiar rhythm of planting and harvest continuing under the same expansive sky that has witnessed the town's evolution.
Live animated radar for Crooksville 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 | Crooksville, Perry County, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 39.768957°N, 82.092087°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 43731 |
| Area Code | 740 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Crooksville, Ohio Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crooksville, 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 Crooksville includes coordinates 39.768957°N, 82.092087°W, situated in Perry County. ZIP code 43731. Telephone area code: 740. 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.
