Bellwood, Virginia Weather
Bellwood, Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Bellwood, Chesterfield County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Bellwood. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Bellwood is published on the Richmond Executive-Chesterfield County Airport (KFCI) 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. 4 airfields within reach of Bellwood 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 Bellwood: Richmond International Airport (KRIC) 14 km · Dinwiddie County Airport (KPTB) 27 km · Hanover County Municipal Airport (KOFP) 32 km
Conditions reported at KFCI describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Bellwood specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Bellwood, Virginia
Bellwood lies in a gentle hollow, where the land begins to soften its resolve after the firmer rises of the higher Piedmont. It lies 9.2 miles south of Richmond, VA (from Richmond, VA: bearing 172°T), and is situated 4.5 miles north of Chester. The air here carries a particular sweetness, especially in late afternoon, a blend of damp earth and the faint, almost floral scent of the dense pine stands that flank the roads. Fields, often fallow and dusted with the pale gold of dried grasses, stretch out like rumpled blankets, interspersed with the darker, more serious green of mature hardwoods that line the meandering creeks. The sky above Bellwood often feels vast, a canvas for clouds that drift with a leisurely, unhurried grace, and when the sun dips low, it paints the western horizon in hues of bruised plum and molten copper, a spectacle that seems to imbue the very quiet of the place with a subtle luminescence. The history of Bellwood is less a grand narrative and more a series of quiet persistences, a testament to the enduring pull of the land. For generations, its economy was tethered to the soil, with tobacco and later soybeans shaping the contours of the landscape and the lives of its inhabitants. While the agricultural pulse still beats, a quiet diversification has taken hold; small businesses catering to the surrounding communities now offer a more varied hum to the local rhythm. There are no towering monuments here, no famous sons or daughters whose names echo across the nation, but in the weathered barns, the old general store with its creaking floorboards, and the way neighbors still pause to chat on front porches, there’s a palpable sense of continuity, a lived history that doesn’t shout but rather whispers its presence through the everyday fabric of Bellwood.
Live animated radar for Bellwood 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 | Bellwood, Chesterfield County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.421815°N, 77.437483°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23237 |
| Area Code | 804 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Bellwood, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bellwood, Virginia, 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 Bellwood includes coordinates 37.421815°N, 77.437483°W, situated in Chesterfield County. ZIP code 23237. Telephone area code: 804. 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.
