Fairfield, AL Weather Forecast
Jefferson County, Alabama
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Fairfield, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Fairfield, AL at a glance
Fairfield is home to about 9,582 people in Jefferson County, across 3.5 square miles. It ranks 69th by population of 154 places in Alabama with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Midfield, 1 miles away.
- County
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 9,582 2023 est.
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,766
- Forecast point
- 33.4748°N, 86.9194°W
How well can the network see Fairfield?
The nearest Doppler radar is KBMX (Birmingham, AL), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 1,300 ft above Fairfield. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Fairfield show up clearly. Fairfield is closer to its radar than 81% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KEKY (Bessemer Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Fairfield
- Midfield, AL1 mi
- Pleasant Grove, AL4 mi
- Homewood, AL6 mi
- Hueytown, AL7 mi
- Bessemer, AL8 mi
- Birmingham, AL8 mi
- Hoover, AL9 mi
- Adamsville, AL9 mi
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