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The public record 1996 to today

Wisconsin wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,668 days with wind on record somewhere in Wisconsin since 1996, 1,036 of them at 58 mph or more, across 35,499 reports. The strongest on record is 128 mph sustained on 30 May 1998 in DODGE County. 151 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: Wisconsin hail history.

1,668

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,036

Days at 58 mph or more

128mph

Strongest measured, May 1998

151

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Wisconsin

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 Sturtevant 314 days 113 mph
  2. 02 Mount Pleasant 312 days 113 mph
  3. 03 West Allis 311 days 100 mph
  4. 04 Milwaukee 307 days 100 mph
  5. 05 Somers 304 days 113 mph
  6. 06 Greenfield 294 days 100 mph
  7. 07 Pleasant Prairie 294 days 113 mph
  8. 08 Greendale 287 days 100 mph
  9. 09 Wauwatosa 283 days 100 mph
  10. 10 Shorewood 283 days 100 mph
  11. 11 Racine 281 days 90 mph
  12. 12 Cudahy 274 days 100 mph
  13. 13 St. Francis 274 days 100 mph
  14. 14 Kenosha 273 days 113 mph
  15. 15 South Milwaukee 271 days 100 mph
  16. 16 Hales Corners 253 days 100 mph
  17. 17 Glendale 246 days 100 mph
  18. 18 Whitefish Bay 243 days 100 mph
  19. 19 Sheboygan Falls 243 days 81 mph
  20. 20 Oak Creek 238 days 84 mph
  21. 21 Sheboygan 235 days 75 mph
  22. 22 Elm Grove 228 days 100 mph
  23. 23 Fox Point 224 days 100 mph
  24. 24 Brookfield 218 days 100 mph
  25. 25 Franklin 217 days 100 mph
  26. 26 Caledonia 213 days 85 mph
  27. 27 Brown Deer 210 days 82 mph
  28. 28 New Berlin 206 days 100 mph
  29. 29 Pewaukee 204 days 100 mph
  30. 30 Waukesha 202 days 100 mph
Every place in Wisconsin (151)

Wind days by year in Wisconsin

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2022, with 74 days of wind, 45 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Wisconsin

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Wisconsin: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
30 May 1998 128 mph Sustained Ground observation DODGE
17 Jun 2026 121 mph Gust Ground observation IOWA
01 Jul 2011 120 mph Gust Ground observation BURNETT
01 Jul 2011 120 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
01 Jul 2011 120 mph Gust Ground observation BURNETT
01 Jul 2011 120 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
01 Jul 2011 120 mph Gust Ground observation BURNETT
05 Aug 2000 115 mph Sustained Ground observation ROCK
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in Wisconsin

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