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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 4,703 cities in 51 states, from 200,038 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

4,703

Cities with wind on record nearby

200,038

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 Washington, DC 128 days 90 mph
  2. 02 Hyattsville, MD 125 days 81 mph
  3. 03 Takoma Park, MD 123 days 81 mph
  4. 04 Falls Church, VA 123 days 90 mph
  5. 05 Mount Rainier, MD 123 days 81 mph
  6. 06 Cocoa Beach, FL 119 days 92 mph
  7. 07 College Park, MD 116 days 81 mph
  8. 08 Bladensburg, MD 116 days 81 mph
  9. 09 Cheverly, MD 116 days 81 mph
  10. 10 Cape Canaveral, FL 113 days 92 mph
  11. 11 Riverdale Park, MD 113 days 81 mph
  12. 12 Jacksonville, FL 111 days 108 mph

Wind history by state

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

  1. Florida 1,413 days 227 cities
  2. Texas 1,358 days 374 cities
  3. Georgia 867 days 143 cities
  4. Kansas 824 days 64 cities
  5. New York 762 days 167 cities
  6. North Carolina 749 days 145 cities
  7. Oklahoma 739 days 75 cities
  8. Montana 724 days 19 cities
  9. Mississippi 723 days 61 cities
  10. Alabama 715 days 106 cities
  11. Tennessee 699 days 104 cities
  12. South Carolina 689 days 65 cities
  13. California 686 days 346 cities
  14. Virginia 672 days 63 cities
  15. Missouri 664 days 133 cities
  16. Ohio 658 days 254 cities
  17. Colorado 657 days 75 cities
  18. Nebraska 649 days 32 cities
  19. Alaska 629 days 1 city
  20. Illinois 624 days 327 cities
  21. Louisiana 623 days 59 cities
  22. Pennsylvania 614 days 192 cities
  23. Arkansas 596 days 68 cities
  24. Wyoming 572 days 14 cities
  25. Kentucky 569 days 79 cities
  26. South Dakota 567 days 18 cities
  27. Indiana 528 days 126 cities
  28. Michigan 523 days 153 cities
  29. Iowa 509 days 86 cities
  30. Arizona 467 days 56 cities
  31. New Mexico 455 days 34 cities
  32. Minnesota 449 days 153 cities
  33. Wisconsin 426 days 151 cities
  34. West Virginia 397 days 26 cities
  35. Oregon 390 days 72 cities
  36. Nevada 388 days 12 cities
  37. Maryland 381 days 44 cities
  38. Massachusetts 343 days 54 cities
  39. North Dakota 341 days 14 cities
  40. New Jersey 337 days 192 cities
  41. Utah 273 days 93 cities
  42. Idaho 246 days 36 cities
  43. Washington 235 days 107 cities
  44. Connecticut 217 days 21 cities
  45. Maine 207 days 20 cities
  46. Vermont 203 days 8 cities
  47. Delaware 163 days 11 cities
  48. New Hampshire 163 days 13 cities
  49. Hawaii 121 days 1 city
  50. Rhode Island 116 days 8 cities
  51. District of Columbia 78 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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Before you run an address

The finder lists every day with hail on record within 10 miles of an address in the last 2 years, ranked by how many independent sources carried it, and counts the days with wind on record in the same window beside them. For one date, the wind lookup states the peak gusts near the address and how far away each was read.

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The next step

The gust is on record. The report is what reached the roof.

These pages are the record around a place: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: every wind report with its distance and bearing from the roof, the nearest station's readings, the analysis grid sampled at the address and labelled as analyzed, and the federal record each figure came from, in a document that states its own method. About a minute.

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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 a trained 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 24 August 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 spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. 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.

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.