How many wind farms are in Iowa?

Iowa has 124 operating utility-scale wind farms with 13 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.

What is the largest wind farm in Iowa?

Highland Wind Project (IA) in O'Brien County, Iowa is the largest, at 502 MW. It came online in 2015.

How many wind farms were built in Iowa in 2025?

2 wind farms came online in Iowa in 2025, with 384 MW of capacity.

Who is developing wind farms in Iowa?

Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.

Wind farms in Iowa

Iowa has 124 operating wind farms with 13 GW of capacity. 2 came online in 2025.

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See planned wind farms in Iowa

Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

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Updated monthly. Last updated November 2026.

Iowa had 76 wind farms online in 2016 and 124 in 2026

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Wind farms online at the end of each year. Source: EIA-860M, compiled by Cleanview.

The 10 largest wind farms in Iowa

Operating, by capacity

#	Wind farm	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Highland Wind Project (IA)	O'Brien County	2015	502 MW
2	Orient Wind Farm	Adair County	2019	501 MW
3	Rolling Hills Wind Farm	Cass County	2011	484 MW
4	Palo Alto Wind Farm	Palo Alto County	2020	340 MW
5	North English	Poweshiek County	2019	340 MW
6	Beaver Creek Wind	Boone County	2018	340 MW
7	Arbor Hill Wind Farm	Adair County	2020	310 MW
8	Ida Grove Wind	Ida County	2016	301 MW
9	Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm	Mitchell County	2008	300 MW
10	Upland Prairie	Clay County	2019	299 MW

Wind farms that came online most recently in Iowa

Newest first

#	Wind farm	County	Year online	Capacity
1	Shenandoah Hills Wind Farm	Page County	2025	214 MW
2	Salt Creek Wind	Tama County	2025	169 MW
3	Prescott Wind Farm	Adams County	2024	39 MW
4	Chickasaw Wind Farm	Chickasaw County	2023	202 MW
5	Great Pathfinder Wind	Hamilton County	2023	224 MW
6	Ledyard Windpower, LLC	Kossuth County	2022	207 MW
7	Kossuth County Wind	Kossuth County	2022	70 MW
8	CED Manchester Wind	Delaware County	2022	8 MW
9	Heartland Divide II	Audubon County	2022	200 MW
10	Plymouth Wind	Plymouth County	2022	203 MW

The developer behind each project is on paid plans. See plans

How Cleanview tracks wind farms

Operating wind farms come from the EIA's monthly survey of power plants. Planned projects come from the grid operators' interconnection queues. We research who is developing each one, since a queue lists a project company, not its owner.

Questions about wind farms in Iowa

How many wind farms are in Iowa?: Iowa has 124 operating utility-scale wind farms with 13 GW of capacity, according to the EIA's monthly survey of power plants.
What is the largest wind farm in Iowa?: Highland Wind Project (IA) in O'Brien County, Iowa is the largest, at 502 MW. It came online in 2015.
How many wind farms were built in Iowa in 2025?: 2 wind farms came online in Iowa in 2025, with 384 MW of capacity.
Who is developing wind farms in Iowa?: Interconnection queues list each project under a project company, not the developer behind it. Cleanview researches the developer of every project and has them on paid plans.