Iowa Snow Totals

How much snow fell in Iowa: the latest storm's totals by city and from NWS spotters, and the snowiest Iowa cities so far this winter, updated every morning.

Iowa's latest storm came last season, April 7, 2026, and brought an estimated 3.3 inches at Creston, the most of any Iowa city in NOAA's snowfall analysis; spotters measured up to 3.5 inches at Oakland, IA. No Iowa city has had measurable snow so far this winter (since October 1, 2026, through November 7, 2026). Last season (2025–26), Fort Dodge led with an estimated 46.5 inches.

Latest storm: April 7, 2026

Snow totals for the latest storm in Iowa, the 24-hour period ending the morning of April 7, 2026. NOAA estimates are the value at each city's center; spotter reports are what observers measured at one spot, often a storm total.

Day pages: Apr 7, 2026

Most snow last season in Iowa (2025–26)

No Iowa city has had measurable snow yet this season. Last season's totals, NOAA estimates at each city's center:

Snow days in Iowa since October 2025

Days when NOAA's analysis put an inch or more in at least one Iowa county.

All Iowa cities with snow since October 2025

Adel Albia Algona Altoona Ames Anamosa Ankeny Asbury Atlantic Bettendorf Bloomfield Bondurant Boone Burlington Camanche Carlisle Carroll Carter Lake Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Center Point Centerville Chariton Charles City Cherokee Clarinda Clarion Clear Lake Clinton Clive Coralville Council Bluffs Cresco Creston Davenport Decorah Denison Des Moines DeWitt Dubuque Dyersville Eagle Grove Eldora Eldridge Emmetsburg Estherville Evansdale Fairfax Fairfield Forest City Fort Dodge Fort Madison Garner Glenwood Grimes Grinnell Grundy Center Hampton Harlan Hawarden Hiawatha Hudson Humboldt Huxley Independence Indianola Iowa City Iowa Falls Jefferson Jesup Johnston Kalona Keokuk Knoxville Le Claire Le Mars Madrid Manchester Maquoketa Marion Marshalltown Mason City Milford Missouri Valley Mitchellville Monticello Mount Pleasant Mount Vernon Muscatine Nevada New Hampton Newton North Liberty Norwalk Oelwein Onawa Orange City Osage Osceola Oskaloosa Ottumwa Pella Perry Pleasant Hill Polk City Red Oak Robins Rock Rapids Rock Valley Sergeant Bluff Sheldon Shenandoah Sibley Sioux Center Sioux City Solon Spencer Spirit Lake Storm Lake Story City Tama Tiffin Tipton Urbandale Vinton Washington Waterloo Waukee Waukon Waverly Webster City West Branch West Burlington West Des Moines West Liberty Williamsburg Wilton Windsor Heights Winterset

National standings: snowiest US cities this winter.

Sources

Weather stations: NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network – Daily (GHCN-Daily), daily snowfall (element SNOW) from NCEI's data service. Recent days are preliminary; values NCEI's checks flag are left out. Normals are each station's average snowfall per calendar date over its normals period (1991–2020 for most stations). Estimates: NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC), National Snowfall Analysis, 24-hour totals on a 4-km grid, at the city's Census center point. These are estimated, not measured.

Spotter reports: National Weather Service Local Storm Reports (LSRs): measurements sent to NWS offices by trained storm spotters, CoCoRaHS and co-op observers, NWS staff, the public and others, archived by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University). Reports are what each observer measured at one spot, often a storm total so far, and the NWS doesn't quality-check every one. Exact repeats count once.

These are our own summaries of public NOAA data; NOAA has not reviewed them. Source: National Storms (nationalstorms.com), CC BY 4.0, data from NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, NOAA NOHRSC and NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.