Piedmont, West Virginia Weather
Piedmont, West Virginia — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Piedmont, Mercer County.
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About Piedmont, West Virginia
Piedmont sits in a hollow, the land rising sharply on all sides like cupped hands holding a secret. It lies 49.1 miles west-north-west of Blacksburg, VA (from Blacksburg, VA: bearing 288°T), and is situated 9.5 miles north of Bluewell. The air here, particularly after a rain, carries the damp, earthy scent of dense woods and the faint tang of coal dust that seems to cling to the very stones. Pine and oak, thick and dark, crowd the slopes, their branches reaching towards a sky that can be a brilliant, piercing blue or a bruised, heavy grey, often within the same afternoon. A small creek, sometimes a rush of brown water after a storm, sometimes a mere trickle over smooth stones, winds through the heart of Piedmont, its murmur a constant, quiet companion to the rustle of leaves and the distant bark of a dog. The houses, many built of weathered wood or brick, huddle together as if for warmth, their porches offering a glimpse into lives lived at a pace dictated by the seasons and the incline of the hills. This corner of Mercer County, long shaped by the relentless industry of coal, still whispers of that past. The veins of black rock beneath the surface once fueled furnaces far away, and the echoes of pickaxes and mining carts can almost be heard on the wind that sweeps down the ravines. The local economy, though diversified now, still carries the imprint of those boom and bust years, a resilient spirit forged in hardship. Though no major highways bisect Piedmont, life here moves with a steady, grounded rhythm, a sense of place that runs deeper than asphalt. The community is a close-knit one, where neighbours know each other's comings and goings, and the evening light, as it slants through the trees and paints the hills in shades of amber and rose, feels like a benediction, a quiet promise of enduring continuity.
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| Location | Piedmont, Mercer County, West Virginia |
| Coordinates | 37.450672°N, 81.263711°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 24729, 26750 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Piedmont, West Virginia Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Piedmont, West 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 Piedmont includes coordinates 37.450672°N, 81.263711°W, situated in Mercer County. ZIP code 24729, 26750. Telephone area code: 304. 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.
