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The public record 1996 to today

New York wind history

The public federal storm record holds 2,732 days with wind on record somewhere in New York since 1996, 1,325 of them at 58 mph or more, across 73,202 reports. The strongest on record is 222 mph on 21 December 2017 in SARATOGA County. 167 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: New York hail history.

2,732

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,325

Days at 58 mph or more

222mph

Strongest measured, Dec 2017

167

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in New York

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 Great Neck Plaza 297 days 125 mph
  2. 02 Manorhaven 297 days 122 mph
  3. 03 New York 296 days 125 mph
  4. 04 Kings Point 291 days 125 mph
  5. 05 Bayville 288 days 94 mph
  6. 06 Great Neck 283 days 125 mph
  7. 07 Pelham Manor 282 days 122 mph
  8. 08 Rye 280 days 100 mph
  9. 09 Mamaroneck 276 days 100 mph
  10. 10 Pelham 276 days 122 mph
  11. 11 Glen Cove 269 days 100 mph
  12. 12 Larchmont 268 days 100 mph
  13. 13 Port Chester 267 days 100 mph
  14. 14 Williston Park 265 days 125 mph
  15. 15 New Rochelle 262 days 122 mph
  16. 16 Harrison 259 days 100 mph
  17. 17 East Hills 257 days 122 mph
  18. 18 Colonie 254 days 173 mph
  19. 19 North Hills 252 days 125 mph
  20. 20 Mount Vernon 248 days 122 mph
  21. 21 Rye Brook 246 days 100 mph
  22. 22 Westbury 240 days 100 mph
  23. 23 New Hyde Park 239 days 125 mph
  24. 24 Tonawanda 237 days 85 mph
  25. 25 Garden City 235 days 125 mph
  26. 26 Rensselaer 235 days 173 mph
  27. 27 Floral Park 234 days 125 mph
  28. 28 Albany 233 days 173 mph
  29. 29 Mineola 232 days 125 mph
  30. 30 Williamsville 232 days 81 mph
Every place in New York (167)

Wind days by year in New York

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2025, with 125 days of wind, 48 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in New York

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in New York: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
21 Dec 2017 222 mph Gust Ground observation SARATOGA
31 Dec 2016 173 mph Gust Ground observation ALBANY
31 Dec 2016 173 mph Gust Ground observation ALBANY
18 May 2000 145 mph Sustained Ground observation DUTCHESS
18 May 2000 145 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
29 Dec 2016 128 mph Gust Ground observation ONONDAGA
27 Jul 2008 125 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
27 Jul 2008 125 mph Gust Ground observation GREENE
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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under New York 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 31 October 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.