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Iowa county death feed: new obituaries in every county

One subscription. Every county in Iowa. See new obituaries as they're published, the relatives named in them, and possible property matches where available. That gives investors, agents, trust managers, skip tracers and proptech teams an earlier start on their research. Relatives named in an obituary are not a legal determination of heirs. $249 a month per state after a 5-day free trial. Pull all counties or filter to a single county with county_slug.

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Iowa Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible Daily County Intelligence notice universe: not official vital statistics.

828

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

3,547

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

312

Active sources monitored (30 days)

99

Counties with recent activity

2 hours ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 2 hours ago

Iowa Death Data by County

99 counties with recent activity

Explore recent death and obituary activity detected across supported counties. Search the coverage table below to see where eligible Daily County Intelligence records have been detected during the last 30 days.

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Webster County32016TodayActive
Polk County14421TodayActive
Scott County14011YesterdayActive
Linn County138202 days agoActive
Dallas County1258YesterdayActive
Woodbury County12210TodayActive
Pottawattamie County1067YesterdayActive
Dubuque County928YesterdayActive
Marshall County894YesterdayActive
Lee County768YesterdayActive
Johnson County758YesterdayActive
Fayette County677TodayActive
Black Hawk County659TodayActive
Chickasaw County6522 days agoActive
Clinton County659TodayActive

Recent Deaths Detected Across Iowa

Counts of death and obituary records detected by ObituaryMonitor, not official state mortality totals.

Last 7 days

828

Previous 7 days: 947 · -13% vs prior period

Last 30 days

3,547

Previous 30 days: 4,018 · -12% vs prior period

These figures represent records detected by ObituaryMonitor and should not be interpreted as official state mortality statistics.

What Iowa Death & Obituary Records Can Include

Field availability across recent eligible Iowa Daily County Intelligence records (trailing 30 days).

Name

100%

of recent Iowa records

Date of death

100%

of recent Iowa records

City / location

95.9%

of recent Iowa records

County

100%

of recent Iowa records

Source URL

100%

of recent Iowa records

Funeral home / publisher

100%

of recent Iowa records

Notice text read

98.1%

of recent Iowa records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects Iowa Death & Obituary Data

Cities with recent eligible activity (not a complete list of every community).

Fort Dodge250Perry102Cedar Rapids99Council Bluffs98Davenport95Sioux City81West Des Moines76Marshalltown70Elma65Nashua64Jefferson61Keokuk55

Iowa Funeral Homes & Obituary Sources

ObituaryMonitor monitors funeral homes and obituary sources across Iowa to detect newly published death and obituary information. Eligible records become available through Daily County Intelligence. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

Browse Iowa Funeral Homes →

How Iowa Daily County Intelligence Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors 17,565+ funeral-home and newspaper sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible Iowa records become available through Daily County Intelligence.
  5. Customers receive new records through API, CSV, or portal delivery.

Data is continuously collected from monitored sources, not sold as a static list.

Access Iowa Death Data Your Way

API

Receive eligible Iowa death and obituary records programmatically in JSON.

Explore the Daily County Intelligence →

CSV

Download or export records for operational workflows and CRM import.

Web Portal

Review and filter new Iowa records through the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Who Uses Iowa Death Data?

Real Estate Investors

Monitor newly detected deaths across every county in Iowa for potential probate or inherited-property research.

Probate & Legal Services

Identify recent deaths within geographic service areas and support downstream estate workflows.

Financial Institutions

Use death signals as an additional input in deceased-customer and risk-monitoring processes. Financial institutions monitoring

Data & Software Companies

Integrate normalized death and obituary data into software products and operational systems.

Research / Operations

Monitor county-level death events without manually checking individual obituary websites.

Example Iowa Death Data API Record

Illustrative sample record, not an actual person.

{
  "id": "fh-sample",
  "full_name": "Sample Person",
  "first_name": "Sample",
  "last_name": "Person",
  "date_of_death": "2026-08-08",
  "state": "IA",
  "county": "Polk",
  "county_slug": "polk-county-ia",
  "city": "Des Moines",
  "source_type": "funeral_home",
  "obituary_url": "https://example.com/sample",
  "funeral_home_name": "Example Funeral Home",
  "indexed_at": "2026-08-08T14:22:00.000Z",
  "survivors_status": "ok"
}

This example shows the structure of an eligible Daily County Intelligence record. Field names follow the public Daily County Intelligence notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

Iowa Death Data & Daily County Intelligence FAQ

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