Wake Forest, NC Weather Forecast
Wake County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Wake Forest, 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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Wake Forest, NC at a glance
Wake Forest is home to about 54,337 people in Wake County, across 20 square miles. It ranks 20th by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Rolesville, 4 miles away.
- County
- Wake County
- Population
- 54,337 2023 est.
- Land area
- 20 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 2,767
- Forecast point
- 35.9644°N, 78.5133°W
How well can the network see Wake Forest?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRAX (Raleigh/Durham, NC), to the S. Its lowest scan passes about 1,200 ft above Wake Forest. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Wake Forest show up clearly. Wake Forest is closer to its radar than 84% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KLHZ (Louisburg/Franklin Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Wake Forest
- Rolesville, NC4 mi
- Franklinton, NC10 mi
- Raleigh, NC12 mi
- Knightdale, NC12 mi
- Creedmoor, NC14 mi
- Zebulon, NC15 mi
- Louisburg, NC15 mi
- Wendell, NC16 mi
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