Disaster-history hazard lens
High wind, strong wind, and thunderstorm wind events. Compare official county histories below while keeping FEMA administrative declarations separate from NOAA observed-event reports.
Data updated Aug 21, 2026
These counts do not measure current danger, probability, severity, loss, or personal exposure. A higher rank means only that a county has more records within the same official source and exact coverage window. FEMA and NOAA counts are never added together.
Administrative records
Federal administrative declarations that include a county designation and map to this hazard category. A declaration is a government action, not a physical-event census.
0 counties have a positive high wind count in this source.
No positive fema declaration history count is present for this category among the atlas county profiles.
Observed-event reports
Distinct NOAA Storm Events records explicitly coded to a county and mapped to this hazard category. Forecast-zone and marine-zone records are excluded from county totals.
52 counties have a positive high wind count in this source.
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – Sep 25, 2025
Rankings compare only this source and exact coverage window. Equal counts share a rank.
| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Providence County, Rhode Island | 149 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – Apr 12, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | King County, Washington | 3 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – Apr 16, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chittenden County, Vermont | 247 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 3, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clark County, Nevada | 244 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 10, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumberland County, Maine | 262 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 15, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cass County, North Dakota | 339 |
| 2 | Hillsborough County, New Hampshire | 236 |
| 3 | Honolulu County, Hawaii | 13 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 18, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook County, Illinois | 1,182 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 19, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlesex County, Massachusetts | 567 |
| 2 | Wayne County, Michigan | 448 |
| 3 | Hartford County, Connecticut | 358 |
| 4 | Kent County, Michigan | 184 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 20, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montgomery County, Maryland | 804 |
| 2 | Bergen County, New Jersey | 308 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 24, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania | 272 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 25, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maricopa County, Arizona | 1,203 |
| 2 | Laramie County, Wyoming | 173 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 26, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles County, California | 86 |
| 2 | Fresno County, California | 69 |
| 3 | Ventura County, California | 21 |
| 4 | Multnomah County, Oregon | 10 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 27, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairfax County, Virginia | 662 |
| 2 | Jefferson County, Kentucky | 541 |
| 3 | Greenville County, South Carolina | 437 |
| 4 | New Castle County, Delaware | 378 |
| 5 | Hennepin County, Minnesota | 362 |
| 6 | Marion County, Indiana | 357 |
| 7 | Milwaukee County, Wisconsin | 156 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 28, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanawha County, West Virginia | 492 |
| 2 | East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana | 195 |
| 3 | Harrison County, Mississippi | 153 |
| 4 | Bernalillo County, New Mexico | 96 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 29, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma County, Oklahoma | 549 |
| 2 | Yellowstone County, Montana | 311 |
| 3 | Salt Lake County, Utah | 233 |
| 4 | Ada County, Idaho | 80 |
| 5 | Kings County, New York | 69 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 30, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wake County, North Carolina | 632 |
| 2 | Douglas County, Nebraska | 275 |
| 3 | El Paso County, Colorado | 124 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 31, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polk County, Iowa | 620 |
| 2 | Harris County, Texas | 524 |
| 3 | Jefferson County, Alabama | 510 |
| 4 | Pulaski County, Arkansas | 500 |
| 5 | St. Louis County, Missouri | 452 |
| 6 | Johnson County, Kansas | 407 |
| 7 | Franklin County, Ohio | 404 |
| 8 | Shelby County, Tennessee | 391 |
| 9 | Fulton County, Georgia | 330 |
| 10 | Minnehaha County, South Dakota | 266 |
| 11 | Miami-Dade County, Florida | 265 |
