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Freeze Warnings in Iowa, 2025
7 freeze warnings in 2025. 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 freeze warnings reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Warnings
- 7
- Busiest month
- October7 freeze warnings
- Busiest day
- October 22, 20253 freeze warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 1:30 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Monona | 20 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:25 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:05 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 5 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:31 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 29 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:59 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:51 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:26 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | DMX | Davis, Mahaska, Poweshiek, Wapello | 19 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County2
- Benton County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Fremont County1
- Harrison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Jasper County1
35 more counties
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Ringgold County1
- Sac County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Allamakee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Davis County1
- Mahaska County1
- Wapello County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.