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Fire Weather Watches in Iowa, 2021
6 fire weather watches in 2021. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.
Fire Weather Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- March4 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- March 28, 20213 fire weather watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 3:31 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:17 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:24 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 14 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:22 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 36 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:53 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 12 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:26 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ida County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona County1
- Shelby County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Adair County1
41 more counties
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.