Forest Hills, Tennessee Weather
Forest Hills, Tennessee — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Forest Hills, Sullivan County.
Full aviation weather for Forest Hills is published on the Virginia Highlands Airport (KVJI) 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. 6 airfields within reach of Forest Hills 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 Forest Hills: Elizabethton Municipal Airport (K0A9) 24 km · Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA Airport (KTRI) 27 km · Johnson City Airport (K0A4) 29 km · Johnson County Airport (K6A4) 34 km · Lonesome Pine Airport (KLNP) 56 km
Conditions reported at KVJI describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Forest Hills specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Forest Hills.
About Forest Hills, Tennessee
Forest Hills rises from the rolling terrain where the Appalachian foothills begin their slow surrender to the wider Tennessee landscape. It lies 2.4 miles east of Bristol, TN (from Bristol, TN: bearing 98°T), and is situated 9.0 miles north-east of Hamilton. The air here carries a perpetual scent of damp earth and pine, a fragrance that deepens with the coming of evening, tinged with the woodsmoke from distant hearths. Roads, often unpaved and winding, trace the contours of the land, disappearing into stands of oak and maple that form a dense, verdant canopy. Sunlight, when it breaks through, falls in shafts of liquid gold, illuminating patches of fern and moss that carpet the forest floor. The houses themselves are scattered, often set back from the road, their porches looking out onto a world that seems to exist in its own unhurried time. The history of Forest Hills is not a grand narrative of booming industry, but a quieter story of persistent settlement and adaptation. Early settlers, drawn by the fertile valleys and timber resources, established a way of life that still echoes in the present. The local economy, though diversified, retains roots in agriculture, with small farms still dotting the landscape, their fields a patchwork of green and gold under the wide sky. While there are no singular, towering landmarks, the very character of Forest Hills lies in its understated beauty: the way the mist clings to the hollows on cool mornings, the distant murmur of a creek finding its way through the trees, and the quiet pride of a people who understand the enduring value of the land.
Live animated radar for Forest Hills 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 | Forest Hills, Sullivan County, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 36.590385°N, 82.145687°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 37215, 37160, 37604, 37027 |
| Area Code | 731, 615, 629 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Forest Hills, Tennessee Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Forest Hills, Tennessee, 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 Forest Hills includes coordinates 36.590385°N, 82.145687°W, situated in Sullivan County. ZIP code 37215, 37160, 37604, 37027. Telephone area code: 731, 615, 629. 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.
