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The public record 1996 to today

Colorado wind history

The public federal storm record holds 3,044 days with wind on record somewhere in Colorado since 1996, 2,388 of them at 58 mph or more, across 37,210 reports. The strongest on record is 149 mph on 18 February 2016 in EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT County. 78 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: Colorado hail history.

3,044

Days with wind on record, statewide

2,388

Days at 58 mph or more

149mph

Strongest measured, Feb 2016

78

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Colorado

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 Rifle 366 days 82 mph
  2. 02 Grand Junction 318 days 75 mph
  3. 03 Craig 314 days 90 mph
  4. 04 Montrose 286 days 71 mph
  5. 05 Superior 272 days 142 mph
  6. 06 Louisville 270 days 142 mph
  7. 07 Boulder 253 days 142 mph
  8. 08 Lafayette 249 days 142 mph
  9. 09 Arvada 246 days 142 mph
  10. 10 Westminster 244 days 142 mph
  11. 11 Colorado Springs 232 days 105 mph
  12. 12 Cortez 218 days 86 mph
  13. 13 Wheat Ridge 212 days 115 mph
  14. 14 Durango 206 days 68 mph
  15. 15 Steamboat Springs 202 days 123 mph
  16. 16 Broomfield 187 days 142 mph
  17. 17 Federal Heights 187 days 142 mph
  18. 18 Pueblo 182 days 107 mph
  19. 19 Golden 181 days 115 mph
  20. 20 Monument 177 days 100 mph
  21. 21 Lamar 163 days 107 mph
  22. 22 Gypsum 161 days 96 mph
  23. 23 Commerce City 160 days 97 mph
  24. 24 Eagle 160 days 96 mph
  25. 25 Englewood 159 days 81 mph
  26. 26 Cherry Hills Village 159 days 97 mph
  27. 27 Erie 157 days 142 mph
  28. 28 La Junta 157 days 94 mph
  29. 29 Northglenn 154 days 142 mph
  30. 30 Lakewood 152 days 86 mph
Every place in Colorado (78)

Wind days by year in Colorado

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2025, with 153 days of wind, 110 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Colorado

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Colorado: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
18 Feb 2016 149 mph Gust Ground observation EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT
18 Feb 2016 148 mph Gust Ground observation CHAFFEE
06 Jun 2007 142 mph Gust Ground observation BOULDER
24 Oct 1997 138 mph Sustained Ground observation ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS/FLAT TOPS/WHITE RIVER P
11 Nov 2005 134 mph Gust Ground observation S & SE GRAND / W CENTRAL & SW BOULDER / GILPIN / C
02 Nov 1997 127 mph Sustained Ground observation NORTHERN FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS/UPPER LARAMIE AND C
02 Feb 1999 127 mph Sustained Ground observation SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS/CLEAR CREEK BASIN
31 Dec 2011 126 mph Gust Ground observation SUMMIT
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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under Colorado 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 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.