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Frost Advisories in Iowa, 2025
7 frost advisories 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 frost advisories reaches back to 2005.
Frost Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Frost Advisories
- 7
- Busiest month
- October6 frost advisories
- Busiest day
- October 22, 20254 frost advisories
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 4:17 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | FSD | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Oct 21, 1:30 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 21, 2:00 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 23 more | 19 hr |
| Oct 22, 1:51 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:01 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | ARX | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:20 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 38 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:25 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 31 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Humboldt County2
- Madison County2
- Marshall County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Polk County2
- Ringgold County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
47 more counties
- Sioux County1
- Harrison 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
- Lee County1
- Linn 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
- Appanoose County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Davis County1
- Grundy County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Wapello County1
- Wayne 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.