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The public record 1996 to today

Utah wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,753 days with wind on record somewhere in Utah since 1996, 1,349 of them at 58 mph or more, across 27,197 reports. The strongest on record is 150 mph on 21 February 2023 in WEBER County. 94 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: Utah hail history.

1,753

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,349

Days at 58 mph or more

150mph

Strongest measured, Feb 2023

94

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Utah

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 Layton 414 days 150 mph
  2. 02 South Weber 410 days 150 mph
  3. 03 Washington Terrace 406 days 150 mph
  4. 04 Sunset 406 days 150 mph
  5. 05 Riverdale 405 days 150 mph
  6. 06 Cottonwood Heights 404 days 149 mph
  7. 07 South Ogden 402 days 150 mph
  8. 08 Ogden 399 days 150 mph
  9. 09 Roy 395 days 150 mph
  10. 10 West Haven 380 days 150 mph
  11. 11 Harrisville 376 days 150 mph
  12. 12 Midway 376 days 149 mph
  13. 13 North Ogden 361 days 150 mph
  14. 14 Park City 356 days 149 mph
  15. 15 Cedar Hills 289 days 113 mph
  16. 16 Alpine 285 days 130 mph
  17. 17 Murray 274 days 96 mph
  18. 18 Millcreek 271 days 98 mph
  19. 19 South Salt Lake 261 days 99 mph
  20. 20 Lindon 260 days 113 mph
  21. 21 Sandy 258 days 90 mph
  22. 22 Holladay 257 days 98 mph
  23. 23 Pleasant Grove 255 days 113 mph
  24. 24 Vineyard 253 days 113 mph
  25. 25 White City metro township 253 days 90 mph
  26. 26 Orem 250 days 113 mph
  27. 27 Riverton 244 days 90 mph
  28. 28 Heber 244 days 112 mph
  29. 29 Provo 242 days 113 mph
  30. 30 Taylorsville 242 days 96 mph
Every place in Utah (94)

Wind days by year in Utah

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2022, with 121 days of wind, 79 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Utah

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Utah: 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 Feb 2023 150 mph Gust Ground observation WEBER
17 Mar 2012 149 mph Gust Ground observation SALT LAKE
27 Dec 2022 149 mph Gust Ground observation WASATCH MOUNTAINS I-80 NORTH
31 Dec 2022 146 mph Gust Ground observation WEBER
03 Apr 2023 131 mph Gust Ground observation IRON
21 Dec 2022 130 mph Gust Ground observation SALT LAKE
21 Dec 2022 130 mph Gust Ground observation WASATCH MOUNTAINS SOUTH OF I-80
02 Apr 2023 122 mph Gust Ground observation WEBER
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in Utah

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