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The public record 1996 to today

Arizona wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,707 days with wind on record somewhere in Arizona since 1996, 1,328 of them at 58 mph or more, across 13,229 reports. The strongest on record is 125 mph on 30 November 2007 in TOHONO OODHAM NATION County. 57 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: Arizona hail history.

1,707

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,328

Days at 58 mph or more

125mph

Strongest measured, Nov 2007

57

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Arizona

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Tucson 258 days 94 mph
  2. 02 Guadalupe 224 days 105 mph
  3. 03 Tempe 203 days 105 mph
  4. 04 Mesa 194 days 104 mph
  5. 05 Paradise Valley 194 days 105 mph
  6. 06 Gilbert 192 days 104 mph
  7. 07 Chandler 178 days 104 mph
  8. 08 Phoenix 177 days 115 mph
  9. 09 Glendale 159 days 100 mph
  10. 10 Youngtown 118 days 101 mph
  11. 11 El Mirage 109 days 101 mph
  12. 12 Oro Valley 106 days 81 mph
  13. 13 Kingman 106 days 101 mph
  14. 14 Tolleson 105 days 101 mph
  15. 15 Litchfield Park 104 days 101 mph
  16. 16 Apache Junction 102 days 89 mph
  17. 17 Bullhead City 96 days 100 mph
  18. 18 Queen Creek 94 days 92 mph
  19. 19 Marana 81 days 74 mph
  20. 20 Safford 80 days 92 mph
  21. 21 Winslow 79 days 73 mph
  22. 22 Thatcher 79 days 92 mph
  23. 23 Scottsdale 73 days 81 mph
  24. 24 Sierra Vista 72 days 91 mph
  25. 25 Florence 69 days 81 mph
  26. 26 Fountain Hills 68 days 100 mph
  27. 27 Flagstaff 65 days 88 mph
  28. 28 Prescott 54 days 83 mph
  29. 29 Casa Grande 53 days 90 mph
  30. 30 Somerton 53 days 86 mph
Every place in Arizona (57)

Wind days by year in Arizona

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2022, with 92 days of wind, 76 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Arizona

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Arizona: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
30 Nov 2007 125 mph Gust Ground observation TOHONO OODHAM NATION
04 Jul 1996 115 mph Sustained Ground observation YAVAPAI
14 Aug 1996 115 mph Sustained Ground observation MARICOPA
23 Jan 2025 115 mph Gust Ground observation Coconino
16 Dec 2000 114 mph Sustained Ground observation WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM
09 Nov 2012 111 mph Gust Ground observation COCONINO
31 Jan 2016 110 mph Gust Ground observation PIMA
23 Aug 2010 107 mph Sustained Ground observation APACHE
The next step

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The figures on this page are the record across Arizona: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under Arizona by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. 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 2 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.