Fort Dodge, IA Noise Levels
Is Fort Dodge, IA noisy?
Fort Dodge, IA sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Fort Dodge as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.
Where Fort Dodge ranks
Fort Dodge, IA sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. Population is about 24,886, 1,616th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.
Your street may differ from Fort Dodge's reading
This page describes Fort Dodge as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind Fort Dodge's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how Fort Dodge's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Fort Dodge isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.