Prospect, Virginia Weather
Prospect, 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 Prospect, Prince Edward County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Prospect. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Prospect is published on the Farmville Regional Airport (KFVX) page, 12 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 Prospect 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 Prospect: Lunenburg County Airport (KW31) 50 km · Lynchburg Regional Airport - Preston Glenn Field (KLYH) 57 km · Chase City Municipal Airport (KCXE) 58 km · Allen C Perkinson Blackstone Army Air Field (KBKT) 59 km
Conditions reported at KFVX describe the airfield itself. Weather 12 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Prospect specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
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.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| 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 | September 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, 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 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. 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.
