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Highest surface wind by state

Average wind speed at 10 m.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Modelled multiyear average wind speed 10 metres above ground, in metres per second. The NREL WIND Toolkit raster covers 2007–2014; county values are means of its pixels inside the county, and state values are population-weighted county means. This is a broad climate description, not gusts, a wind forecast, or a local turbine-siting assessment — terrain, trees and buildings can change wind substantially within a county.

  1. 1Wyoming5.1 m/s
  2. 2Nevada4.7 m/s
  3. 3Montana4.6 m/s
  4. 4North Dakota4.2 m/s
  5. 5South Dakota4.2 m/s
  6. 6New Mexico4.1 m/s
  7. 7Kansas4.1 m/s
  8. 8Colorado4.0 m/s
  9. 9Nebraska4.0 m/s
  10. 10Oklahoma4.0 m/s
  11. 11Utah4.0 m/s
  12. 12Vermont3.9 m/s
  13. 13Iowa3.9 m/s
  14. 14Idaho3.8 m/s
  15. 15Texas3.7 m/s
  16. 16Indiana3.6 m/s
  17. 17Minnesota3.6 m/s
  18. 18Wisconsin3.6 m/s
  19. 19New York3.6 m/s
  20. 20Illinois3.6 m/s
  21. 21Oregon3.6 m/s
  22. 22Washington3.6 m/s
  23. 23Arizona3.5 m/s
  24. 24Michigan3.5 m/s
  25. 25Rhode Island3.5 m/s
  26. 26New Hampshire3.4 m/s
  27. 27Missouri3.4 m/s
  28. 28California3.4 m/s
  29. 29Delaware3.4 m/s
  30. 30Massachusetts3.4 m/s
  31. 31Ohio3.4 m/s
  32. 32Maine3.3 m/s
  33. 33Pennsylvania3.3 m/s
  34. 34Connecticut3.3 m/s
  35. 35New Jersey3.2 m/s
  36. 36Louisiana3.1 m/s
  37. 37Maryland3.1 m/s
  38. 38Arkansas3.1 m/s
  39. 39Kentucky3.1 m/s
  40. 40Virginia3.1 m/s
  41. 41West Virginia3.0 m/s
  42. 42North Carolina3.0 m/s
  43. 43District of Columbia2.9 m/s
  44. 44Tennessee2.9 m/s
  45. 45Florida2.9 m/s
  46. 46South Carolina2.8 m/s
  47. 47Mississippi2.8 m/s
  48. 48Georgia2.8 m/s
  49. 49Alabama2.7 m/s

Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Alaska, Hawaii. NREL's comparable 10 m raster covers the contiguous U.S. only, so Alaska and Hawaii are left unavailable rather than substituted with a different product.

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Source: NREL WIND Toolkit. · How this is built