Spirit Lake, IA Weather Forecast
Dickinson County, Iowa
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Spirit Lake, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
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
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Spirit Lake, IA at a glance
Spirit Lake is home to about 5,533 people in Dickinson County, across 4.5 square miles. It ranks 74th by population of 139 places in Iowa with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Milford, 5 miles away.
- County
- Dickinson County
- Population
- 5,533 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,224
- Forecast point
- 43.4167°N, 95.1131°W
How well can the network see Spirit Lake?
The nearest Doppler radar is KFSD (Sioux Falls, SD), to the W. Its lowest scan passes about 7,100 ft above Spirit Lake. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Spirit Lake can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KMJQ (Jackson Muni). Far enough that current conditions for Spirit Lake are a reading from somewhere else.
Forecasts near Spirit Lake
- Milford, IA5 mi
- Estherville, IA14 mi
- Jackson, MN16 mi
- Spencer, IA19 mi
- Worthington, MN28 mi
- Emmetsburg, IA30 mi
- Windom, MN32 mi
- Sibley, IA32 mi
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