Fort Dodge, IA Weather Forecast
Webster County, Iowa
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The next few hours
A dry morning, mostly sunny
It is 21°, but the wind is taking it down to 15° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly sunny. The air is close to calm.
The wind turns to the south around 10 AM. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 23°. Tomorrow tops out near 50°.
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
23–58°F across the weekThe week runs between 23° and 58°, with Friday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Friday is the wettest day, peaking near 40%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.
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Fort Dodge, IA at a glance
Fort Dodge is home to about 24,591 people in Webster County, across 16 square miles. It ranks 21st by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Humboldt, 15 miles away.
- County
- Webster County
- Population
- 24,591 2023 est.
- Land area
- 16 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,536
- Forecast point
- 42.5099°N, 94.1757°W
How well can the network see Fort Dodge?
The nearest Doppler radar is KDMX (Des Moines, IA), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 4,400 ft above Fort Dodge. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Fort Dodge can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KFOD (Fort Dodge Rgnl). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Fort Dodge
- Humboldt, IA15 mi
- Eagle Grove, IA18 mi
- Webster City, IA19 mi
- Clarion, IA27 mi
- Boone, IA35 mi
- Jefferson, IA36 mi
- Story City, IA37 mi
- Algona, IA39 mi
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