Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 270 stores from 134 ice cream & frozen treats in Iowa. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cold Stone Creamery and Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
134
Tracked stores
270
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Dairy Queen and Cold Stone Creamery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +12.2%
2 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery ▲1 +10.2%
3 O Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt logo Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt ▲1 +8.9%
4 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲2 +8.8%
5 T Tropical Sno - -2.4%
6 W Whitey's Ice Cream logo Whitey's Ice Cream - -3.0%
7 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt - -40.3%
8 4 4 Queens Dairy Cream ▼4 -90.0%
  • Dairy Queen
  • La Michoacana
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt
  • Hansen's Dairy
  • Cedar City Creamery
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

270 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (101)
  • La Michoacana (1)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (11)
  • Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt (5)
  • Hansen's Dairy (2)
  • Cedar City Creamery (1)
  • Baskin-Robbins (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 101
  • 2 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery 11
  • 3 O Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt logo Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt 5
  • 4 W Whitey's Ice Cream logo Whitey's Ice Cream 4
  • 5 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt 4
  • 6 4 4 Queens Dairy Cream 4
  • 7 T Tropical Sno 3
  • 8 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins 3
  • 9 S Sweet Swirls Rolled Ice Cream 2
  • 10 J Jersey Freeze 2
  • 11 T The Scoops Udder Place 2
  • 12 H Heyn's Ice Cream 2
  • 13 B Black Cat Ice Cream 2
  • 14 P Peachwave logo Peachwave 2
  • 15 C Country Style Ice Cream 2
  • 16 H Hansen's Dairy 2
  • 17 T The Outside Scoop 2
  • 18 T The Brain Freezer 1
  • 19 T Two Scoops Ice Cream Shop 1
  • 20 T Twiins Shoppe 1
  • 21 N Northend Sweets and Treats 1
  • 22 S Scoops 1
  • 23 S Sweet Delite Ice Cream 1
  • 24 F Fruitzen Shaved Ice 1
  • 25 T The Shell Rock Scoop 1
  • 26 G Graham's Dairy Freez 1
  • 27 S Sno Biz 1
  • 28 D Double Dip 1
  • 29 N Nutshelle's Dairy Sweet 1
  • 30 D De Scoop 1
  • 31 S Storm Lake Candy Co. 1
  • 32 S Scoops on the Loop 1
  • 33 L Luna Gelato and Ice Cream 1
  • 34 B Bonbon Frozen Yogurt 1
  • 35 D Dariette 1
  • 36 I I Scream Treats and More 1
  • 37 S Scoops Creamery 1
  • 38 D Dari Sweet 1
  • 39 T The Frozen Parrot 1
  • 40 S Smilee's Ice Cream & More 1
  • 41 T The Olde Creamery Garner 1
  • 42 R Ruthie's Parlor 1
  • 43 M Misty's Malt Shop 1
  • 44 S Sky Kone Ice Cream 1
  • 45 S South Shore Sweet Shop 1
  • 46 D Dairy Dandy 1
  • 47 C Cones and Cups 1
  • 48 E Elena's Ice Cream Shop 1
  • 49 C Cook's Sugar Shack 1
  • 50 G Granny's Sweet Freeze Shoppe 1

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