Bellwood, Virginia Weather
Bellwood, Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast for Bellwood, Chesterfield County.
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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.
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| 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 | July 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, 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 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. 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.
