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The public record 1996 to today

Washington wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,036 days with wind on record somewhere in Washington since 1996, 625 of them at 58 mph or more, across 8,963 reports. The strongest on record is 147 mph on 2 December 2007 in PACIFIC County. 122 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: Washington hail history.

1,036

Days with wind on record, statewide

625

Days at 58 mph or more

147mph

Strongest measured, Dec 2007

122

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Washington

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 Spokane 104 days 75 mph
  2. 02 Walla Walla 97 days 99 mph
  3. 03 Airway Heights 93 days 89 mph
  4. 04 Bellingham 87 days 97 mph
  5. 05 College Place 87 days 90 mph
  6. 06 Spokane Valley 85 days 75 mph
  7. 07 Richland 85 days 83 mph
  8. 08 Vancouver 83 days 93 mph
  9. 09 West Richland 83 days 96 mph
  10. 10 Camas 79 days 99 mph
  11. 11 Pasco 74 days 84 mph
  12. 12 Clarkston 70 days 91 mph
  13. 13 Kennewick 66 days 81 mph
  14. 14 Anacortes 62 days 90 mph
  15. 15 Snoqualmie 58 days 62 mph
  16. 16 Ferndale 57 days 83 mph
  17. 17 Washougal 56 days 99 mph
  18. 18 Yakima 55 days 78 mph
  19. 19 Oak Harbor 55 days 81 mph
  20. 20 Selah 55 days 78 mph
  21. 21 North Bend 55 days 61 mph
  22. 22 Cheney 54 days 89 mph
  23. 23 Pullman 52 days 88 mph
  24. 24 Hoquiam 51 days 79 mph
  25. 25 Aberdeen 50 days 79 mph
  26. 26 Liberty Lake 50 days 73 mph
  27. 27 Union Gap 49 days 78 mph
  28. 28 Port Townsend 45 days 75 mph
  29. 29 Ellensburg 42 days 71 mph
  30. 30 Mercer Island 41 days 70 mph
Every place in Washington (122)

Wind days by year in Washington

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2012, with 57 days of wind, 30 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Washington

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Washington: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
02 Dec 2007 147 mph Gust Ground observation PACIFIC
17 Nov 2015 137 mph Gust Ground observation CHELAN
14 Dec 2006 135 mph Gust Ground observation CHELAN
05 Jan 2007 123 mph Gust Ground observation YAKIMA
20 Dec 2018 117 mph Gust Ground observation WHATCOM
11 Jan 2010 115 mph Gust Ground observation CLALLAM
30 Nov 2022 115 mph Gust Ground observation PIERCE
19 Nov 2012 114 mph Gust Ground observation PZZ210
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in Washington

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