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The public record 1996 to today

Idaho wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,620 days with wind on record somewhere in Idaho since 1996, 940 of them at 58 mph or more, across 25,140 reports. The strongest on record is 116 mph on 17 November 2015 in NORTHERN PANHANDLE County. 36 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: Idaho hail history.

1,620

Days with wind on record, statewide

940

Days at 58 mph or more

116mph

Strongest measured, Nov 2015

36

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Idaho

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 Chubbuck 321 days 84 mph
  2. 02 Pocatello 298 days 84 mph
  3. 03 Idaho Falls 223 days 75 mph
  4. 04 Ammon 222 days 75 mph
  5. 05 Burley 197 days 86 mph
  6. 06 Twin Falls 194 days 79 mph
  7. 07 Kimberly 188 days 79 mph
  8. 08 Rupert 186 days 86 mph
  9. 09 Boise City 179 days 81 mph
  10. 10 Rexburg 175 days 81 mph
  11. 11 Garden City 172 days 81 mph
  12. 12 Meridian 167 days 73 mph
  13. 13 Rigby 157 days 80 mph
  14. 14 Kuna 141 days 73 mph
  15. 15 Jerome 141 days 75 mph
  16. 16 Shelley 132 days 75 mph
  17. 17 Nampa 113 days 81 mph
  18. 18 Blackfoot 107 days 86 mph
  19. 19 Star 103 days 81 mph
  20. 20 Fruitland 103 days 98 mph
  21. 21 Caldwell 101 days 81 mph
  22. 22 Payette 96 days 75 mph
  23. 23 Middleton 94 days 81 mph
  24. 24 Preston 74 days 93 mph
  25. 25 Lewiston 72 days 91 mph
  26. 26 Mountain Home 62 days 79 mph
  27. 27 Post Falls 58 days 75 mph
  28. 28 Rathdrum 55 days 75 mph
  29. 29 Moscow 54 days 90 mph
  30. 30 Coeur d'Alene 53 days 75 mph
Every place in Idaho (36)

Wind days by year in Idaho

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2024, with 140 days of wind, 72 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Idaho

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Idaho: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
17 Nov 2015 116 mph Gust Ground observation NORTHERN PANHANDLE
17 Dec 2025 115 mph Gust Ground observation Camas
21 Dec 2022 107 mph Gust Ground observation CAMAS
14 Jul 2002 104 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
14 Jul 2002 104 mph Sustained Ground observation CUSTER
17 Nov 2015 101 mph Gust Ground observation BONNER
07 Apr 2018 101 mph Gust Ground observation CAMAS
15 Dec 2006 100 mph Gust Ground observation CAMAS
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in Idaho

The figures on this page are the record across Idaho: 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 Idaho 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.