When will the power be back in West Des Moines, IA?

West Des Moines is a city of about 73,664 residents in Polk County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for West Des Moines by name, so this page reports the Polk County county-wide view, which covers West Des Moines. If a serving utility does name West Des Moines during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

ZIP codes in West Des Moines:

• 50265

West Des Moines also extends into a neighboring county: 50266. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around West Des Moines: the closest other places we track are Clive, about 4 miles to the north; Urbandale, about 6 miles to the north; Norwalk, about 6 miles to the southeast; and Waukee, about 6 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Grimes (9 mi N), Des Moines (9 mi E), Johnston (10 mi N), Pleasant Hill (15 mi E), Ankeny (16 mi NE), Altoona (17 mi NE), Indianola (17 mi SE) and Ames (34 mi N).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Boone (35 mi); northeast toward Marshalltown (56 mi); east toward Newton (40 mi); southeast toward Ottumwa (80 mi); south toward Excelsior Springs, MO (155 mi); southwest toward Maryville, MO (101 mi); west toward Council Bluffs (110 mi); and northwest toward Carroll (66 mi).