Listen live to Fort Dodge Police, the Webster County Sheriff, and fire and EMS departments across Webster County — streamed 24/7, straight from the radio system they actually use. Free, no app to install, no ads.
Most public safety traffic in Webster County and Fort Dodge no longer runs on the old conventional VHF channels you'd program into an analog scanner. It runs on the Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System (ISICS) — a P25 Phase II trunked radio network. NCISS monitors the Fort Dodge ISICS site (RFSS 1 / Site 035) directly.
That distinction matters for one practical reason: a standard scanner can't follow a trunked system. The agencies aren't sitting on a fixed frequency — the network assigns channels dynamically and organizes traffic into talkgroups instead. To hear Fort Dodge PD or a rural fire department today, you need something that decodes the P25 trunk and follows the talkgroups. That's exactly what NCISS does, and then streams the result as plain audio you can open in a browser.
Plain English: NCISS listens to the same modern radio system Webster County dispatch actually uses, and hands you the audio with nothing to install.
Fort Dodge is the county seat and the largest city in Webster County, and it generates much of the busiest traffic on this stream. The Fort Dodge Police Department, Fort Dodge Fire Department, and Fort Dodge EMS all operate on the same Iowa ISICS P25 trunked network as the rest of the county — so a conventional analog scanner won't follow them, but NCISS decodes and streams them in plain audio.
If you came here looking for a Fort Dodge police scanner or Fort Dodge fire scanner, the talkgroups you want are already on the Webster County stream below: Fort Dodge Police Dispatch and Law 2, Fort Dodge Fire Dispatch, Fire Ops, two fire tactical channels, and Fort Dodge EMS Dispatch. One stream covers the city and the surrounding county together.
The Webster County Public Safety stream combines the talkgroups below. Green rows are actively streamed.
| 61933 | Fort Dodge Police DispatchLIVE |
| 61934 | Fort Dodge Police Law 2LIVE |
| 61955 | Fort Dodge Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61923 | Fort Dodge Fire OpsLIVE |
| 61924 | Fort Dodge Fire TAC 2LIVE |
| 61925 | Fort Dodge Fire TAC 3LIVE |
| 61954 | Fort Dodge EMS DispatchLIVE |
| 61910 | Webster County Sheriff DispatchLIVE |
| 61911 | Webster County Law 2LIVE |
| 61929 | Webster County Fire OpsLIVE |
| 61926 | Webster County Fire 2LIVE |
| 61927 | Webster County Fire 3LIVE |
| 61965 | Webster County Fire All CallLIVE |
| 61947 | Badger Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61948 | Barnum Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61949 | Callendar Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61950 | Clare Fire/EMS DispatchLIVE |
| 61952 | Dayton Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61951 | Dayton EMS DispatchLIVE |
| 61953 | Duncombe Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61957 | Gowrie Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61956 | Gowrie EMS DispatchLIVE |
| 61958 | Harcourt Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61959 | Lehigh Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61960 | Moreland Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61961 | Otho Fire DispatchLIVE |
| 61963 | Vincent Fire/EMS DispatchLIVE |
| 61964 | Stratford Fire and Rescue DispatchLIVE |
Full talkgroup list, including monitored-but-not-streamed channels, is on the Signals page.
No advertising, no pre-roll, no paywall, no premium tier locking the good stuff. The stream is the stream.
Plays in any browser on any device. No account required to listen.
Operated by a licensed Iowa ham radio operator who lives in the coverage area, knows the agencies, and is actively listening — so the talkgroups stay accurate.
Decoded straight from the live ISICS P25 trunk, named talkgroup by talkgroup — not a generic frequency list.
Yes. Every NCISS stream is free — no ads, no paywall, no premium tier. Open the stream and you're listening.
No. The stream plays directly in your browser. If you'd rather use a scanner app, any app that supports Icecast or HTTP audio can connect to the same stream URL.
Webster County and Fort Dodge public safety traffic runs on the ISICS P25 Phase II trunked network, not conventional VHF. A standard analog scanner can't follow trunked talkgroups. NCISS decodes the P25 system directly and streams the audio in plain form.
Yes. Monitoring unencrypted public safety radio is lawful under federal law for receive-only hobbyist use. NCISS is passive and receive-only — nothing is transmitted, and encrypted talkgroups are not decoded.
Fort Dodge and the rest of Webster County share one combined NCISS stream, because Fort Dodge PD, Fire, and EMS run on the same ISICS network as the county. Listening to the Webster County stream covers all Fort Dodge police, fire, and EMS traffic.
Streams run 24/7 and are typically 30–60 seconds behind real time, which is normal for internet streaming. It's not suitable for emergency response. If you need emergency services, call 911.