Wheat Ridge, CO Weather Forecast
Jefferson County, Colorado
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Wheat Ridge, 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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Wheat Ridge, CO at a glance
Wheat Ridge is home to about 31,804 people in Jefferson County, across 9.3 square miles. It ranks 26th by population of 105 places in Colorado with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Edgewater, 3 miles away.
- County
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 31,804 2023 est.
- Land area
- 9.3 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3,404
- Forecast point
- 39.7727°N, 105.1048°W
How well can the network see Wheat Ridge?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFTG (Denver, CO), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 1,800 ft above Wheat Ridge. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Wheat Ridge show up clearly. Wheat Ridge is closer to its radar than 71% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KBJC (Rocky Mtn Metro). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Wheat Ridge
- Edgewater, CO3 mi
- Arvada, CO5 mi
- Lakewood, CO5 mi
- Golden, CO6 mi
- Westminster, CO8 mi
- Federal Heights, CO8 mi
- Sheridan, CO10 mi
- Glendale, CO10 mi
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