Van Buren, AR Weather Forecast
Crawford County, Arkansas
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Van Buren, 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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Van Buren, AR at a glance
Van Buren is home to about 24,138 people in Crawford County, across 15 square miles. It ranks 20th by population of 115 places in Arkansas with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Fort Smith, 7 miles away.
- County
- Crawford County
- Population
- 24,138 2023 est.
- Land area
- 15 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,560
- Forecast point
- 35.4512°N, 94.3540°W
How well can the network see Van Buren?
The nearest Doppler radar is KSRX (Fort Smith, AR), to the S. Its lowest scan passes about 570 ft above Van Buren. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Van Buren show up clearly. Van Buren is closer to its radar than 94% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KFSM (Fort Smith Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Van Buren
- Fort Smith, AR7 mi
- Alma, AR8 mi
- Barling, AR9 mi
- Roland, OK9 mi
- Lavaca, AR13 mi
- Muldrow, OK14 mi
- Pocola, OK15 mi
- Greenwood, AR16 mi
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