Roland, Oklahoma Weather
Roland, Oklahoma — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Roland, Sequoyah County.
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About Roland, Oklahoma
Roland, Oklahoma, breathes with the deep, verdant exhalations of the Ouachita Mountains' foothills, a landscape where piney ridges soften into rolling terrain. It lies 7.0 miles west-north-west of Fort Smith, AR (from Fort Smith, AR: bearing 290°T), and is situated 9.4 miles west of Van Buren. The air here, especially in the morning, carries the damp scent of rich earth and the faint, sweet perfume of wild honeysuckle clinging to weathered fence posts. Sunlight, when it breaks through the scattered clouds that often drift in from the west, paints the cedar and oak trees in shifting, golden hues, illuminating the occasional rusted tractor parked sentinel-like in a field of dormant Bermuda grass. The very soil seems to hum with a quiet, persistent life, a feeling amplified by the distant, lowing calls of cattle that punctuate the otherwise serene quiet. Roland's character is a subtle blend of its agricultural roots and its proximity to the larger economic currents of eastern Oklahoma. For generations, the land has yielded cotton and cattle, and while those industries still hold sway, the spirit of hard work and self-reliance, forged in earlier days, persists. The town itself is a collection of modest homes and businesses, a place where familiar faces greet you at the corner store and the pace of life allows for easy conversation. There's a palpable sense of history woven into the quiet streets, a story of resilience and adaptation that echoes in the weathered clapboard of older buildings and the sturdy frame of the local Pentecostal church, a landmark that has witnessed the ebb and flow of Roland's life for decades.
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| Location | Roland, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma |
| Coordinates | 35.421202°N, 94.514662°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 74954 |
| Area Code | 918 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Roland, Oklahoma Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Roland, Oklahoma, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Roland includes coordinates 35.421202°N, 94.514662°W, situated in Sequoyah County. ZIP code 74954. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
