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Traffic cameras and live cams in Iowa
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4,469 public cameras in Iowa 4,025 traffic cameras, 1,842 with live video, 16 cities with a camera page.
Highway and traffic cameras plus public webcams across Iowa, by city.
- Cameras
- 4,469
- Traffic & highway
- 4,025
- Live video
- 1,842
- Operators
- 17
- Cities with pages
- 16
Traffic cameras in Iowa
GodsView indexes 4,469 public cameras in Iowa: 4,025 traffic & highway, 418 weather & scenic, 18 river & coast, 6 city & other, 2 airport. 1,842 (41%) stream live video; the rest are still images refreshed by the operator.
That is 4% of the 107,616 cameras in United States, ranking Iowa number 7 of the states. The largest sources are arcgis cams (2,739), windy (925), iowa dot (744), travelmidwest (16).
Most cameras are around West Des Moines (614), Cedar Rapids (514), Iowa City (461).
Traffic & highway: 4,025 (90%), 1,828 with live video. Weather & scenic: 418 (9%), 12 with live video. River & coast: 18 (0%), all still images. City & other: 6 (0%), 2 with live video. Airport: 2 (0%), all still images.
| Camera | Near | Kind | Feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW - I-80 @ MM 169.7 | Ankeny | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| WWD - I-35 @ MM 92.6 (1st St - Ankeny) | Ankeny | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CB - I-80 @ MM 4.7 (Woodbury Ave) | Council Bluffs | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| NW - I-80 @ MM 178.8 (Co Rd T38) | Ankeny | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| AM - I-35 @ MM 109.8 (260th St) | Ames | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| WWD - I-35 @ MM 70.4 (Mills Civic Pkwy) | West Des Moines | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| IC - I-80 @ MM 249 (Herbert Hoover Hwy)-Q | Iowa City | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| WWD - US 30 @ MM 152.8 (580th Ave) | Ames | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| D6 - US 30 @ MM 330.9 (Mississippi River - IL) | Bettendorf | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| I-80 @ MM 219.5 | Iowa City | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CR - US 30 @ MM 247.5 (Edgewood Rd SW) | Cedar Rapids | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| D1 - US 20 @ MM 126.2 | Ames | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| DQ - US 61 @ MM 189.2 (Grandview Truss - South) | Dubuque | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| I-80 @ MM 15.1 | Council Bluffs | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| DM - I-80 @ MM 122.8 (West Mix)-Q | West Des Moines | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| IC - I-80 @ MM 232.7 (Eagle Ave NW) | Iowa City | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| QC - I-74 @ MM 2.9 (Spruce Hills) | Bettendorf | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| WL - US 63 @ MM 166 (E Mullan Ave @ Newell St - S) - C | Waterloo | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CR - IA 13 @ MM 8.2 (Mt Vernon Rd) | Marion | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CB - I-29 @ MM 47.9 (US 275) | Council Bluffs | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CB - I-29 @ MM 59.7 (S of Hamilton Ln) | Council Bluffs | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| DM - I-35 @ MM 94.7 (NE 36th St) | Ankeny | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| SC - I-29 @ MM 144.5 (US 20/75) | Sioux City | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| I-80 @ MM 115.2 | West Des Moines | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CR - Collins Rd @ 1st Ave E (42) | Marion | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| DM - I-235 @ MM 6.3 (35th St) | West Des Moines | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| CB - US 275 @ MM 55.6 (11th St) | Council Bluffs | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| DM - I-235 @ MM 5.4 (Polk Blvd) | West Des Moines | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| NW - I-80 @ MM 174.5 | Ankeny | Traffic & highway | Live video |
| DM - IA 163 @ MM 4.3 (Hickory Blvd) | Des Moines | Traffic & highway | Live video |
A sample led by live video feeds. City pages list every camera by distance.
Highway and traffic cameras in Iowa
4,025 road cameras (90% of the state's total); the most-watched roads are I-80 (1,188), I-35 (497), I-380 (383), I-29 (346), US-20 (271), US-30 (262). 1,828 of them stream live video. Use them to check congestion, crashes and snow or flooding on the road before you drive.
Cameras by city in Iowa
| City | Cameras (nearest city) |
|---|---|
| West Des Moines | 614 |
| Cedar Rapids | 514 |
| Iowa City | 461 |
| Council Bluffs | 458 |
| Ames | 390 |
| Ankeny | 376 |
| Sioux City | 321 |
| Des Moines | 267 |
| Waterloo, IA | 251 |
| Dubuque | 165 |
| Bettendorf | 159 |
| Marion | 132 |
| Burlington, IA | 129 |
| Urbandale | 93 |
| Davenport | 71 |
| Cedar Falls | 68 |
Each camera is counted once, against the nearest city.
Live cams in Iowa cities
- Live cams in Urbandale 838 within 30 km
- Live cams in Des Moines 807 within 30 km
- Live cams in West Des Moines 790 within 30 km
- Live cams in Ankeny 787 within 30 km
- Live cams in Cedar Rapids 579 within 30 km
- Live cams in Marion 571 within 30 km
- Live cams in Council Bluffs 453 within 30 km
- Live cams in Iowa City 326 within 30 km
- Live cams in Ames 324 within 30 km
- Live cams in Waterloo, IA 257 within 30 km
- Live cams in Cedar Falls 257 within 30 km
- Live cams in Davenport 230 within 30 km
- Live cams in Sioux City 230 within 30 km
- Live cams in Bettendorf 230 within 30 km
- Live cams in Dubuque 137 within 30 km
- Live cams in Burlington, IA 33 within 30 km
About these cameras
Every camera is published openly by its operator: state transport departments, 511 services, cities, tourism boards and webcam hosts. GodsView opens the operator's own feed in the app and does not record footage; feeds can go dark at night, for maintenance or during incidents.
Cameras are assigned to Iowa by the nearest city within 80 km; kinds are inferred from the operator and camera name.
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Data: Public camera operators (state DOTs, 511 services, national road agencies, webcam networks) via the Argus open camera index, GeoNames (cities, CC BY 4.0).