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The public record 1996 to today

Wind history by state and city

An index of the evidence, not a forecast and not a climatology: what the public federal storm record holds near 4,817 cities in 51 states, from 1,928,033 wind reports across every source we search, since 1996. Each page says what was searched, keeps measured gusts apart from estimates, counts how many independent sources carried each wind day, and names the nearest instruments on record with the distance to each. It is here so a professional can see whether a citable record exists near a place before running a single address. The hail family has its own index: hail history by state and by city.

51

States with wind on record

4,817

Cities with wind on record nearby

1,928,033

Wind reports in the archive, all sources

222mph

Strongest measured, Dec 2017

Cities with the most wind days

The cities with the most days of wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone.

  1. 01 Livingston, MT 848 days 94 mph
  2. 02 Box Elder, SD 614 days 114 mph
  3. 03 Rapid City, SD 605 days 114 mph
  4. 04 Washington, DC 557 days 96 mph
  5. 05 Atlantic Beach, FL 555 days 92 mph
  6. 06 Neptune Beach, FL 555 days 92 mph
  7. 07 Jacksonville, FL 548 days 108 mph
  8. 08 Cheyenne, WY 534 days 94 mph
  9. 09 Falls Church, VA 529 days 90 mph
  10. 10 Hyattsville, MD 527 days 96 mph
  11. 11 Takoma Park, MD 526 days 96 mph
  12. 12 Mount Rainier, MD 524 days 96 mph

Wind history by state

Every state with wind on record, busiest first. Each page lists its cities.

  1. Florida 5,107 days 227 cities
  2. Texas 4,439 days 376 cities
  3. Montana 3,617 days 19 cities
  4. California 3,229 days 427 cities
  5. Colorado 3,044 days 78 cities
  6. Wyoming 2,936 days 16 cities
  7. Michigan 2,917 days 153 cities
  8. Georgia 2,777 days 143 cities
  9. New York 2,732 days 167 cities
  10. Kansas 2,621 days 64 cities
  11. North Carolina 2,544 days 145 cities
  12. South Dakota 2,400 days 18 cities
  13. Alabama 2,378 days 106 cities
  14. Virginia 2,332 days 63 cities
  15. South Carolina 2,280 days 65 cities
  16. Oklahoma 2,237 days 75 cities
  17. Nebraska 2,203 days 32 cities
  18. Mississippi 2,156 days 61 cities
  19. Missouri 2,083 days 133 cities
  20. Tennessee 2,073 days 104 cities
  21. Illinois 2,045 days 327 cities
  22. Louisiana 2,014 days 59 cities
  23. Pennsylvania 1,971 days 192 cities
  24. Ohio 1,936 days 254 cities
  25. Alaska 1,917 days 2 cities
  26. New Mexico 1,910 days 35 cities
  27. Kentucky 1,839 days 79 cities
  28. Nevada 1,818 days 12 cities
  29. Arkansas 1,762 days 68 cities
  30. Utah 1,753 days 94 cities
  31. Arizona 1,707 days 57 cities
  32. Indiana 1,689 days 126 cities
  33. Wisconsin 1,668 days 151 cities
  34. Idaho 1,620 days 36 cities
  35. Iowa 1,582 days 86 cities
  36. Oregon 1,577 days 79 cities
  37. Minnesota 1,505 days 153 cities
  38. Maryland 1,471 days 44 cities
  39. West Virginia 1,450 days 26 cities
  40. New Jersey 1,244 days 192 cities
  41. Massachusetts 1,236 days 54 cities
  42. North Dakota 1,180 days 14 cities
  43. Washington 1,036 days 122 cities
  44. Maine 844 days 20 cities
  45. Connecticut 757 days 21 cities
  46. Delaware 752 days 11 cities
  47. Vermont 652 days 8 cities
  48. New Hampshire 633 days 13 cities
  49. Rhode Island 448 days 8 cities
  50. Hawaii 316 days 1 city
  51. District of Columbia 262 days 1 city
For one date

Wind at an address on a date, with the station distance stated.

The lookup states the wind reports within 10 miles of an address on one day, by how many sources carried them, and the peak gust at each nearby station the archive holds readings from, with how far away it was read.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive with a point within the page radius of a city's Census centre, and for a state, filed under that state by its source. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 1 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.