Mappsburg, Virginia Weather
Mappsburg, Virginia — 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 Mappsburg, Accomack County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Mappsburg. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Mappsburg is published on the Accomack County Airport (KMFV) 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 Mappsburg 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 Mappsburg: Tangier Island Airport (KTGI) 34 km · Wallops Flight Facility Airport (KWAL) 48 km · Crisfield-Somerset County Airport (KW41) 49 km
Conditions reported at KMFV describe the airfield itself. Weather 8 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mappsburg specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mappsburg.
About Mappsburg, Virginia
Mappsburg lies on a sliver of land, a quiet exhale of the Eastern Shore where the salt-laced air whispers secrets between the marsh grasses and the weathered shingles of homes. It lies 44.0 miles south-south-west of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 204°T), and is situated 4.5 miles north-east of Exmore. The landscape here is a study in muted greens and blues, the sky a vast, ever-shifting canvas that washes over the low-slung terrain. Ditches, more like veins, crisscross the fields, carrying the brackish kiss of the nearby tidal creeks, their surfaces mirroring the bruised purples and soft golds of a coming dusk. The wind, when it stirs, carries the faint, earthy scent of damp soil and the distant, rhythmic sigh of the ocean, a constant, unseen presence. The history of Mappsburg is as layered as the silty earth beneath its feet, an echo of generations who coaxed sustenance from this coastal fringe. Once a hub of maritime activity, its piers now stand as skeletal reminders of a busier past, their timbers groaning with the weight of memory and the persistent tide. Today, agriculture remains a steadfast anchor, the rows of corn and soybeans stretching towards the horizon, their verdant uniformity broken only by the occasional shimmering heat haze rising from sun-baked fields. Local life unfolds at a pace dictated by the tides and the seasons, a gentle rhythm that allows for the quiet appreciation of a sky so wide it seems to hold the entire world, and for the profound silence that descends after the last bird call fades.
Live animated radar for Mappsburg 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 | Mappsburg, Accomack County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.577634°N, 75.76354°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23420 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mappsburg, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mappsburg, 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 Mappsburg includes coordinates 37.577634°N, 75.763540°W, situated in Accomack County. ZIP code 23420. Telephone area code: 757. 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.
