Brownwood, Texas Weather
Brownwood, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Brownwood, Orange County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Brownwood. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Brownwood is published on the Orange County Airport (KORG) page, 8 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 Brownwood 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 Brownwood: Southland Field (KUXL) 35 km · De Quincy Industrial Airpark (K5R8) 44 km · Lake Charles Regional Airport (KLCH) 49 km · Chennault International Airport (KCWF) 58 km
Conditions reported at KORG describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Brownwood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Brownwood.
About Brownwood, Texas
Brownwood breathes a humid, almost palpable air, thick with the scent of pine needles and the distant, sweet decay of marshland. It lies 18.9 miles north-east of Port Arthur, TX (from Port Arthur, TX: bearing 38°T), and is situated 1.5 miles north of Orange. The landscape here is a gentle, yielding embrace of low-lying terrain, where the occasional oak stands sentinel, its branches gnarled like an old man's knuckles against the vast, often overcast sky. Water is never far away; drainage ditches, mirroring the slow, deliberate flow of the larger bayous, crisscross the fields, their muddy banks softened by emerald mosses. The roads, many unpaved, wind through a mosaic of dense woodland and open pasture, the very earth seeming to exhale a soft, green breath after a summer shower. Sunlight, when it breaks through, possesses a diffused, buttery quality, illuminating the lazy dance of dragonflies above the water and casting long, indistinct shadows that blur the edges of the world. The echoes of a logging past still whisper through Brownwood, a time when the forests were felled to feed the insatiable appetite of industry. Though those days have largely receded, a practical, hardworking spirit persists, reflected in the modest homes and the quiet hum of local businesses. The economy, like the land itself, is tied to the natural world, with a subtle undercurrent of agriculture and a reliance on the resources that the surrounding East Texas terrain generously provides. There are no grand monuments or bustling tourist traps in Brownwood; its charm lies in its unpretentious authenticity, in the quiet dignity of its inhabitants and the enduring connection to a landscape that has shaped its character over generations. The evenings here often fall with a soft, almost mournful quietude, broken only by the chirping of unseen insects and the occasional distant bark of a dog, a sound that seems to carry the weight of all the lives lived within Brownwood's embrace.
Live animated radar for Brownwood 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 | Brownwood, Orange County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 30.114376°N, 93.735166°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 77520, 77522, 77630, 76801 |
| Area Code | 281, 325 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Brownwood, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Brownwood, Texas, 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 Brownwood includes coordinates 30.114376°N, 93.735166°W, situated in Orange County. ZIP code 77520, 77522, 77630, 76801. Telephone area code: 281, 325. 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.
