Iowa

Storms in Iowa in 2025

1,642 events in 186 episodes, still being filed

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Iowa in 2025, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Iowa in 2025 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Iowa

The year

Events
1,642
Deaths
2
Injuries
9
Damage
$1.8 million
Episodes
186

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind56400$204,000
Hail25600$940,000
High Wind18300
Blizzard11207
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill10200
Winter Storm8300
Flash Flood7412$368,000
Excessive Heat6800
Winter Weather6000
Tornado3600$328,000
Heavy Rain3000
Strong Wind2400
Flood1200
Cold/Wind Chill1100
Drought900
Funnel Cloud900
Heat600
Lightning200
Dense Fog110

Every episode, month by month

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.