Wilkesboro, NC Weather Forecast
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Wilkesboro, 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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Wilkesboro, NC at a glance
Wilkesboro is home to about 3,661 people in Wilkes County, across 6.6 square miles. It ranks 193rd by population of 230 places in North Carolina with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is North Wilkesboro, 3 miles away.
- County
- Wilkes County
- Population
- 3,661 2023 est.
- Land area
- 6.6 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 556
- Forecast point
- 36.1424°N, 81.1769°W
How well can the network see Wilkesboro?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFCX (Roanoke, VA), to the NE. Its lowest scan passes about 6,700 ft above Wilkesboro. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Wilkesboro can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KUKF (Wilkesboro/Wilkes Cnty). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Wilkesboro
- North Wilkesboro, NC3 mi
- Elkin, NC20 mi
- Lenoir, NC25 mi
- Hudson, NC27 mi
- Granite Falls, NC28 mi
- Boone, NC28 mi
- Sawmills, NC28 mi
- Cajah's Mountain, NC28 mi
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