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winter-storm Winter Storm Risk in Iowa

Overall State Risk Score: 7/10

Iowa faces very high winter-storm risk. 9 of 99 counties (9%) rated high or very high by FEMA National Risk Index.

Seasonal pattern: December-March

Other Hazards in Iowa

earthquake
Earthquake Risk
Score: 1/10
wildfire
Wildfire Risk
Score: 3/10
hurricane
Hurricane Risk
Score: 1/10
flood
Flood Risk
Score: 0/10
tornado
Tornado Risk
Score: 7/10
landslide
Landslide Risk
Score: 3/10
extreme-heat
Extreme Heat Risk
Score: 5/10
drought
Drought Risk
Score: 7/10
high-wind
High Wind Risk
Score: 7/10
tsunami
Tsunami Risk
Score: 0/10

How this data is built

Iowa winter storm risk combines Historical Event Intelligence with authoritative hazard modeling from the Geospatial Intelligence Layers catalog. Live event monitoring is available through the Event Intelligence API and the DisasterAWARE Platform.

The data behind this page

Every score and event here comes from DisasterAWARE's hazard database — available as downloadable historical datasets and a real-time API.

Historical winter storm event data for Iowa — free dataset samples →Real-time winter storm alerts by API →

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