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title: High Wind — U.S. toll in 2025 (NOAA)
peril: High Wind
year: 2025
source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database
sourceId: src:noaa:ncei:storm-events-database
---

# High Wind — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **6 direct deaths**, **9 injuries**, and **$12,162,600 property damage** (+ $49,000 crop) from High Wind, across **46 states** (3,001 events). That is 1.0% of all recorded 2025 hazard deaths.

**How to read this:** one **volatile year** (a major event in another year changes it sharply) — NOT "the deadliest hazard in history." Deaths are NOAA **"direct" deaths only**; indirect deaths are excluded. Damage is NOAA's reported estimate, not insured loss. This is the recorded past toll, **not a forecast of your risk** — for that, see the per-state/county risk profiles and the National Weather Service.

## Where high wind took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 2 | $757,500 |
| MONTANA | 1 | $2,448,500 |
| IDAHO | 1 | $1,471,000 |
| CALIFORNIA | 1 | $729,350 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 1 | $29,000 |
| AMERICAN SAMOA | 0 | $1,055,000 |
| TENNESSEE | 0 | $726,000 |
| WYOMING | 0 | $654,000 |
| OKLAHOMA | 0 | $620,000 |
| KANSAS | 0 | $524,000 |

RECORDED NOAA Storm Events figures. Not history, not your risk, not a forecast. Your exposure: `/property/states/<state>` and `/property/counties/<fips>`. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/

Structured data: `/property/hazards/high-wind.jsonld`