Wind (onshore) incidents recorded in the United Kingdom, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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On the evening of Thursday 17 September, one of the 215 turbines at Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow caught fire. Pictures shared with the reporting newspaper showed the turbine's charred head and blackened blades on the roughly 65-metre-tall hub, described as...
On the evening of 21 August, a fire broke out at a wind turbine substation at a wind farm in Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service confirmed firefighters were called at 7.50pm to a fire involving a wind turbine substation. Ten...
On 25 February 2026 a blade detached from one of the 28 Senvion MM92 turbines at the 57.4MW Brechfa Forest West wind farm in Carmarthenshire, Wales. RWE said its team attended the site after discovering the detachment. The area was empty when the incident...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire broke out on a wind turbine at Kirkby Moor Wind Farm in Kirkby Moor, Cumbria, during the afternoon. Multiple fire crews from several stations attended the scene. The fire service described the blaze as small and stated there was no risk to the public....
A mobile crane came off a hillside site road on a Lancashire wind farm project at Scout Moor windfarm. Police said the eight-axle crane was travelling down the road when it struck an earth bank, left the road, toppled and trapped the driver. The driver was...
A Nordex wind turbine at a site near Manchester in the United Kingdom was reported damaged after a suspected lightning strike. Parts were reported to have come off the turbine. Nordex said it was looking into the incident and that there were no injuries and...
On 19 November 2025, a wind turbine on Burnley Road in Trawden, near Colne in East Lancashire, caught fire. Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service was alerted just after 2pm and dispatched three fire engines from Colne, Burnley and Darwen to the scene. Fire crews...
On 10 October 2025, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) attended a fire at a wind turbine on Makenny Road, Ballinamallard, in Co Fermanagh. A photograph from the scene showed smoke billowing from the top of the turbine while it stood in a...
A single onshore wind turbine at Aviva's Pitheavlis site in Perth, Scotland, collapsed in the early hours of the morning after its blade and turbine arms detached from the nacelle. Nearby residents reported hearing a loud crack before a section of the...
A wind turbine caught fire at Coldham Wind Farm, near Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, UK. The site is operated and owned by ScottishPower Renewables, with turbines manufactured by Vestas. The incident was reported by a local news outlet in early February 2025. No...
A subcontractor working as a maintenance manager at a wind farm near Aviemore, Scotland, was engulfed in flames after a power cabinet controlling 33,000 volts exploded while he was working on it. Court reporting indicates the cabinet had reportedly not been...
Emergency services responded to a fire on a wind turbine near Chumleigh in Devon on 26 September 2024, the day before a Devon Live report dated 27 September. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service sent two fire engines after 999 calls at about 2:12pm....
A wind turbine at Blaen Bowi Wind Farm on Moelfra Hill near Newcastle Emlyn caught fire shortly before midday on 28 January 2024. Fire crews from Newcastle Emlyn and Carmarthen were called at 11.46 and found the turbine well alight, with pieces of debris...
Wind farm operator Renantis launched an investigation after a Nordex wind turbine caught fire at one of its projects in Scotland. The available report does not name the wind farm, give the date of the fire, or describe the extent of damage, injuries or the...
A blade on a Vestas turbine was damaged at the Viking wind farm in the United Kingdom, one of the UK's largest onshore wind farms. Project operator SSE Renewables confirmed the damage. The available report does not give the date of the damage, the cause, the...
In July 2024, a wind turbine technician died after falling from the nacelle of a turbine at an onshore wind site in Scotland, UK, during maintenance work. Public reporting available at the time recorded the fatality and stated that the national workplace...
In May 2024 the UK health and safety regulator issued an industry safety bulletin (reference ED01-2024) following an incident in which a wind turbine service technician suffered serious hand injuries during maintenance work. Service lifts inside turbine...
A fire broke out in the early hours of 29 December, reported as 2023 by inference from the publication date, next to one of the turbines at the Viking Wind Farm on the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The 443MW onshore project, which was in development and under...
Part of a wind turbine blade broke off and landed in a field amid strong winds during Storm Elin. The turbine is one of a pair built in 2015 at Blood Hill in Somerton near Great Yarmouth. The detached section landed about 20m from the tower on a Saturday, and...
Fire crews attended a wind turbine that caught fire near Mains of Lauriston in the St Cyrus area of Aberdeenshire on a Wednesday afternoon. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service mobilised two appliances. Crews remained on site and worked with onsite personnel...
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