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

# Strong Wind — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **8 direct deaths**, **10 injuries**, and **$2,668,350 property damage** (+ $307,000 crop) from Strong Wind, across **44 states** (561 events). That is 1.3% 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 strong wind took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MISSISSIPPI | 2 | $426,000 |
| UTAH | 2 | $57,500 |
| NEW YORK | 2 | $18,500 |
| CALIFORNIA | 1 | $172,400 |
| RHODE ISLAND | 1 | $13,800 |
| TENNESSEE | 0 | $656,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | 0 | $308,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 0 | $298,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS | 0 | $125,500 |
| ILLINOIS | 0 | $86,000 |

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/strong-wind.jsonld`