Prospect, Virginia Weather
Prospect, 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, soil and crop conditions for Prospect, Prince Edward County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Prospect.
About Prospect, Virginia
Prospect lies in a landscape of rolling hills and dappled sunlight, where the air carries the scent of pine and the distant murmur of unseen water. It lies 32.9 miles east-south-east of Lynchburg, VA (from Lynchburg, VA: bearing 103°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west of Farmville. The terrain here is a gentle rise and fall, not dramatic, but enough to shape the way the roads curve and the way the sky opens up above the fields. Old farmsteads, their paint faded to the muted hues of weathered wood, dot the countryside, their barns standing like patient sentinels against the horizon. The character of Prospect is that of quiet persistence, a place where the seasons dictate the pace, and the land itself seems to hold a deep, enduring memory. The history of Prospect is tied to the fertile soil and the waterways that once served as its arteries of commerce. While no longer a bustling port, the echoes of its agricultural past remain, with fields still yielding crops that have sustained families for generations. The local economy, though diversified, retains a strong connection to the land, a quiet pride in the bounty it provides. You can sense this continuity in the way the evenings settle, a calm descent that mirrors the slow turning of the earth, and in the enduring architecture of the older buildings, each brick and beam speaking of lives lived with purpose and resilience in Prospect.
Live animated radar for Prospect 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.
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| Location | Prospect, Prince Edward County, Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.302928°N, 78.559166°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 23960 |
| Area Code | 276 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Prospect, Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Prospect, 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 Prospect includes coordinates 37.302928°N, 78.559166°W, situated in Prince Edward County. ZIP code 23960. Telephone area code: 276. 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.
