Lake Placid, FL Weather Forecast
Highlands County, Florida
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lake Placid, 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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Lake Placid, FL at a glance
Lake Placid is home to about 2,514 people in Highlands County, across 4.7 square miles. It ranks 275th by population of 275 places in Florida with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Sebring, 13 miles away.
- County
- Highlands County
- Population
- 2,514 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.7 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 536
- Forecast point
- 27.3026°N, 81.3715°W
How well can the network see Lake Placid?
The nearest Doppler radar is KTBW (Tampa, FL), to the WNW. Its lowest scan passes about 5,600 ft above Lake Placid. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Lake Placid can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KSEF (Sebring Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Lake Placid
- Sebring, FL13 mi
- Avon Park, FL22 mi
- Arcadia, FL30 mi
- Wauchula, FL32 mi
- Frostproof, FL32 mi
- Okeechobee, FL34 mi
- LaBelle, FL40 mi
- Fort Meade, FL42 mi
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