Home, West Virginia Weather
Home, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Home, Braxton County.
Full aviation weather for Home is published on the Braxton County Airport (K48I) page, 15 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 Home 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 Home: Boggs Field (KUSW) 48 km · Richwood Municipal Airport (K3I4) 54 km · Summersville Airport (KSXL) 55 km · Upshur County Regional Airport (KW22) 56 km
Conditions reported at K48I describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Home specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Home.
About Home, West Virginia
Home rests in a hollow where the hills begin their steep rise, their flanks cloaked in the dense, dark green of mixed hardwoods, a verdant tide that seems to press in from all sides. It lies 51.3 miles east-north-east of Charleston, WV (from Charleston, WV: bearing 59°T), and is situated 7.0 miles north-west of Sutton. The air here carries a perpetual dampness, a cool, earthy perfume that clings to the skin and whispers of unseen springs and hidden creeks. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, falls in fractured shafts, illuminating patches of moss-velveted rock and the quicksilver flash of tiny streams that tumble down the inclines, their voices a constant, murmuring presence. The very character of Home is etched into these contours, a place where the land dictates the pace, where the horizon is a jagged line of ancient trees rather than an open expanse. The history of Home is bound to the restless earth beneath it, a story of extraction and resilience that has shaped its identity. Coal seams, once the lifeblood of this region, are now largely silent, their legacy visible in the weathered faces of abandoned mine entrances and the quiet stoicism of families whose lineage is deeply intertwined with that demanding industry. The local economy, like the land itself, now leans more towards the cultivation of its natural beauty, with small farms clinging to the gentler slopes and a growing appreciation for the quietude that Home offers. A particular charm lies in the way the houses, often simple and sturdy, seem to emerge organically from the landscape, as if they too grew from the soil, their presence a humble testament to generations who have called this place their own.
Live animated radar for Home 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 | Home, Braxton County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 38.725652°N, 80.813157°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 26624 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Home, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Home, West 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 Home includes coordinates 38.725652°N, 80.813157°W, situated in Braxton County. ZIP code 26624. Telephone area code: 304. Timezone: Eastern Time.
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.
