Pocahontas Municipal
POH · KPOH · Pocahontas, Iowa · Pocahontas County · map
Pocahontas Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Pocahontas, 1 mile northeast of Pocahontas, Iowa, 1,226 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 4,100 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA POH · ICAO KPOH
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Pocahontas
- Elevation
- 1,226 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,100 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 1,999 × 135 ft | Grass, fair |
- Runway 12: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 62 ft high 915 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 545 ft from the end
- Runway 18: road 19 ft high 405 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Fort Dodge Center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.0 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Pocahontas from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Pocahontas, Iowa: 7 piston singles, 4 drones, 2 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 12 and 30; PAPI runway 12 and 30; medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 30 calm wind runway.
- No snow removal, runway closed when snow conditions exist.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.