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The public record 1996 to today

Michigan wind history

The public federal storm record holds 2,917 days with wind on record somewhere in Michigan since 1996, 1,321 of them at 58 mph or more, across 62,003 reports. The strongest on record is 201 mph sustained on 11 September 1996 in CHARLEVOIX County. 153 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: Michigan hail history.

2,917

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,321

Days at 58 mph or more

201mph

Strongest measured, Sep 1996

153

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Michigan

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 Holland 522 days 100 mph
  2. 02 Houghton 521 days 92 mph
  3. 03 Norton Shores 516 days 91 mph
  4. 04 Muskegon Heights 514 days 91 mph
  5. 05 Muskegon 481 days 85 mph
  6. 06 Zeeland 448 days 100 mph
  7. 07 East Grand Rapids 435 days 100 mph
  8. 08 Grand Rapids 432 days 100 mph
  9. 09 Wyoming 428 days 100 mph
  10. 10 Kentwood 427 days 100 mph
  11. 11 Grand Haven 417 days 91 mph
  12. 12 Battle Creek 370 days 100 mph
  13. 13 Springfield 367 days 100 mph
  14. 14 Lansing 348 days 81 mph
  15. 15 East Lansing 343 days 81 mph
  16. 16 Portage 336 days 98 mph
  17. 17 Ludington 332 days 81 mph
  18. 18 Jackson 316 days 96 mph
  19. 19 Kalamazoo 313 days 81 mph
  20. 20 Grandville 312 days 100 mph
  21. 21 Marquette 307 days 90 mph
  22. 22 Grand Ledge 303 days 86 mph
  23. 23 Iron Mountain 291 days 81 mph
  24. 24 Kingsford 290 days 81 mph
  25. 25 Traverse City 283 days 75 mph
  26. 26 Manistee 282 days 86 mph
  27. 27 Walker 276 days 100 mph
  28. 28 Sault Ste. Marie 254 days 78 mph
  29. 29 St. Clair Shores 251 days 109 mph
  30. 30 Roseville 240 days 109 mph
Every place in Michigan (153)

Wind days by year in Michigan

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2025, with 180 days of wind, 52 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Michigan

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Michigan: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
11 Sep 1996 201 mph Sustained Ground observation CHARLEVOIX
04 Oct 1997 115 mph Sustained Ground observation DELTA
05 Oct 1997 115 mph Sustained Ground observation SCHOOLCRAFT
17 May 1999 115 mph Sustained Ground observation CALHOUN
02 Oct 2006 113 mph Gust Ground observation WIND PT LT WI TO WINTHROP HBR IL
15 Jun 2022 111 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
15 Jun 2022 111 mph Gust Ground observation MENOMINEE
07 Jul 1996 109 mph Sustained Ground observation MACOMB
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How this page is made

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