Pocola, Oklahoma Weather
Pocola, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Pocola, Le Flore County.
Full aviation weather for Pocola is published on the Fort Smith Regional Airport (KFSM) 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 Pocola 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 Pocola: Arrowhead Assault Strip (KAZU) 24 km · Robert S Kerr Airport (KRKR) 27 km · Sallisaw Municipal Airport (KJSV) 37 km · Stigler Regional Airport (KGZL) 56 km
Conditions reported at KFSM describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Pocola specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Pocola.
About Pocola, Oklahoma
Pocola lies where the Poteau River, a low, dark ribbon, has long shaped the land, its banks a mosaic of cottonwood and scrub oak. It lies 11.6 miles south-south-west of Fort Smith, AR (from Fort Smith, AR: bearing 203°T), and is situated 8.0 miles east of Spiro. The terrain here, just east of the Arkansas border, rolls with a subtle, persistent grade, rising gently towards the Ouachita foothills, a distant blue haze on the horizon. Sunlight often settles in long, golden swathes across the cultivated fields, illuminating the dust kicked up by passing trucks, the air tasting faintly of dry earth and the distant sweetness of ripening corn. The houses, mostly modest and weathered, seem to hunker down against the wide Oklahoma sky, their porches offering a quiet welcome to the persistent breeze that whispers through the tall grasses. The history of Pocola is tied to the land's bounty and the river's temperamental flow. Coal once pulsed beneath the earth here, a deep, subterranean hum that fueled a generation of miners and shaped the very character of the place, leaving behind a legacy of resilience and hard-won grit. Though the mines are long silent, the echoes remain, a quiet testament to the industry that once defined Pocola. Today, agriculture holds sway, the broad fields yielding soybeans and pecans, their green expanse a comforting counterpoint to the sky. The Poteau River, while no longer a central artery of commerce, still marks the boundary of Pocola, its presence a constant reminder of the forces that have molded this corner of Le Flore County.
Live animated radar for Pocola 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 | Pocola, Le Flore County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 35.231206°N, 94.477996°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 74902 |
| Area Code | 918 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Pocola, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pocola, Oklahoma, 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 Pocola includes coordinates 35.231206°N, 94.477996°W, situated in Le Flore County. ZIP code 74902. Telephone area code: 918. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
