How much does a chest freezer cost per month in Iowa?

About $3.98 a month, assuming 300 kWh a year at 15.93¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does a chest freezer use?

Roughly 300 kWh a year under these assumptions.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Iowa has the 23rd cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $55.02 a year.

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Cost to run a chest freezer in Iowa (June 2026 rates)

At 15.93¢ per kilowatt-hour — Iowa's average residential price in June 2026 — running a chest freezer costs $47.79 a year. That is 13% less than the national average of $55.02. Iowa's residential rate is up 3.9% from June 2025, which moves this appliance from $45.99 to $47.79 a year.

Per day: 13.1¢
Per month: $3.98
Per year: $47.79

Assumption: 300 kWh a year. A 7 cubic-foot manual-defrost chest freezer. Upright frost-free models run considerably higher. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Iowa compares

Iowa pays 15.93¢/kWh, the 23rd cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $7.23 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same chest freezer costs $39.33 a year in Nevada and $158 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $119 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
South Carolina	15.55¢	$3.89	$46.65
Kansas	15.71¢	$3.93	$47.13
Iowa	15.93¢	$3.98	$47.79
Texas	15.94¢	$3.98	$47.82
Missouri	16.22¢	$4.05	$48.66

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a chest freezer.

What else costs about the same in Iowa

Dishwasher$49.70 a year in IA Electric oven$53.02 a year in IA Game console$34.89 a year in IA

Cutting the number down

A full freezer holds its temperature through each door opening better than an empty one. Jugs of water are free thermal mass.
Manual-defrost models use less energy than frost-free ones, at the cost of an annual chore.
Keeping it somewhere cool matters: an unconditioned garage in summer raises the running cost all season.

Questions

How much does a chest freezer cost per month in Iowa?: About $3.98 a month, assuming 300 kWh a year at 15.93¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does a chest freezer use?: Roughly 300 kWh a year under these assumptions.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Iowa has the 23rd cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $55.02 a year.