Washington, District of Columbia wind history
553
Days with wind on record
352
Carried by two or more independent sources
185
Days at 58 mph or more
96mph
Strongest measured, Jun 2012
What was searched
| Evidence | Sources | Record from | Reports within 10 mi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ground observation | ×6 | 1996 | 4,552 |
| Radar detection | ×1 | When an address is run | None |
| Official NWS warning | ×1 | When an address is run | None |
| Federal declaration | ×1 | When an address is run | None |
Wind days by year in Washington, DC
Measured Estimated only 58 mph or more
Each mark is one day with wind on record, placed where it fell in the year, and each opens the record for that day. A row with nothing on it is a year with nothing on record.
Best-attested wind days near Washington
Most sources first
| Date | Strongest | Measured | Reports | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jun 2012 | 96 mph | 96 mph | 46 | ×3 |
| 12 Jul 2022 | 92 mph | 92 mph | 20 | ×3 |
| 23 May 2019 | 90 mph | 90 mph | 31 | ×3 |
| 16 Nov 2010 | 90 mph | 90 mph | 35 | ×3 |
| 05 Aug 2010 | 90 mph | 90 mph | 62 | ×3 |
| 29 Jun 2012 | 86 mph | 86 mph | 48 | ×3 |
| 29 Jul 2023 | 84 mph | 84 mph | 92 | ×3 |
| 26 Jul 2021 | 81 mph | 81 mph | 44 | ×3 |
Sources per wind day near Washington
- One source
- 201
- Two
- 126
- Three or more
- 226
A day carried by one report is a report. A day that a spotter, a warning and an instrument all describe is a storm, and it is the kind of day a file can rest on. Every report on these days keeps its own source.
- Hail days
- 84
- Tornado days
- 12
On record within the same 10 miles. Hail history for Washington. A report for an address searches every family.
Strongest wind reports near Washington
Measured Estimated, not measured
| Date | Speed | Reading | Evidence | From centre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jun 2012 | 96 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 5.3 mi ENE |
| 22 Jun 2012 | 96 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 5.3 mi ENE |
| 22 Jun 2012 | 95 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 5.3 mi ENE |
| 12 Jul 2022 | 92 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 7.7 mi NE |
| 12 Jul 2022 | 92 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 7.7 mi NE |
| 05 Aug 2010 | 90 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 6.2 mi SSW |
| 05 Aug 2010 | 90 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 5.8 mi SSW |
| 05 Aug 2010 | 90 mph | Sustained | Ground observation | 5.8 mi SSW |
Peak gusts at the nearest stations on record
Within 30 miles, nearest first
The archive holds no station readings within 30 miles of Washington yet. Station readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and kept afterwards, so they fill here once an address near Washington has been run. The reports above do not depend on them.
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.
Get the wind report for an address in Washington, DC
Everything above is the record around Washington: which days, how strong, how many sources, and how far away each instrument stood. 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 hour by hour, 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.
Questions about wind in Washington, DC
How many wind days has Washington, DC had on record?
553 days with wind on record within 10 miles of the centre of Washington since 1996, 352 of them carried by two or more independent sources and 553 with a gust or speed reported by an instrument or a person on the ground.
What is the strongest wind gust measured near Washington?
96 mph, a sustained speed measured on 22 June 2012, 5.3 miles ENE of the centre of Washington.
When was the last damaging wind in Washington, DC?
The most recent day near Washington at or above 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for damaging wind, was 28 July 2026, with its strongest report 58 mph, measured.
How do I get a wind report for an address in Washington?
Enter the address on this page. The Titan Weather report is the paid document: it searches the same archive at the property and lists every wind report with its distance and bearing from the roof, the nearest station's readings hour by hour, and the federal source each figure came from. The date-of-loss finder is free and lists the storm days on record near Washington first, with the wind days counted beside them.
Wind history near Washington
Within 30 miles of Washington, nearest first. A storm that crossed one of these crossed the others, and their counts overlap.
- Mount Rainier 4 mi 520 days
- Hyattsville 5 mi 523 days
- Takoma Park 5 mi 522 days
- Bladensburg 6 mi 503 days
- Cheverly 6 mi 501 days
- Riverdale Park 7 mi 493 days
- Alexandria 7 mi 504 days
- District Heights 8 mi 460 days
How this page is made
- What counted
- Every wind report in the archive with a point within 10 miles of the Census centre of Washington (38.9043, -77.0165). 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.