Pleasant Hill, IA Weather Forecast
Polk County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Pleasant Hill, 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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Pleasant Hill, IA at a glance
Pleasant Hill is home to about 11,617 people in Polk County, across 11 square miles. It ranks 34th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Altoona, 4 miles away.
- County
- Polk County
- Population
- 11,617 2023 est.
- Land area
- 11 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,074
- Forecast point
- 41.5991°N, 93.5050°W
How well can the network see Pleasant Hill?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), to the NW. Its lowest scan passes about 770 ft above Pleasant Hill. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Pleasant Hill show up clearly. Pleasant Hill is closer to its radar than 91% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KIKV (Ankeny Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Pleasant Hill
- Altoona, IA4 mi
- Des Moines, IA6 mi
- Carlisle, IA6 mi
- Bondurant, IA7 mi
- Mitchellville, IA9 mi
- Ankeny, IA10 mi
- Windsor Heights, IA11 mi
- Norwalk, IA13 mi
Elsewhere in Iowa
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