Wind (onshore) incidents recorded in the United States, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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A wind turbine at the High Prairie Renewable Energy Center collapsed just off Route A, west of Willmathsville in Adair County, Missouri, early on a Saturday morning. Residents reported hearing two loud noises between 4 and 4:30 a.m. The Adair County Sheriff's...
On Monday 19 October 2026, at about 7.13 am, the Highmore Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire at a wind turbine 10 miles south of Highmore, South Dakota. Dispatch confirmed before crews arrived that all workers were accounted for and that no one was...
On 12 October 2026, Willacy County Sheriff's Office deputies and the Sebastian Fire Department responded to a reported fire at a wind turbine near FM 2099 and FM 1018 in Willacy County, Texas. Authorities said emergency personnel were at the scene and urged...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 31 July 2026, around midday, a wind turbine collapsed at the North Fork Ridge Wind Farm in Barton County, Missouri, operated by Liberty Utilities. Local residents reported hearing the structure come down. The turbine's base door had broken off and all...
Hurricane-force winds on 29 June damaged more than 20 of the 92 turbines at the Triple H Wind farm in Hyde County, northwest of Sioux Falls. Engie North America said it was assessing the damage, and the site remained out of service. A state of emergency was...
A wind turbine near Kenney and Hampshire Roads in Warrensburg, Macon County, Illinois, caught fire on a Sunday evening, described by witnesses as a large fireball with burning debris falling to the ground. Five fire departments responded but were unable to...
On the evening of 9 March 2026, residents near Browndale, Pennsylvania, saw one of the 43 turbines at the Waymart Wind Farm, owned by Sequitur Renewables, on fire. The blaze was seen coming from the nacelle, the housing behind the blades that contains the...
A report dated 3 October 2026 said that on 1 February a blade described as 11 storeys high broke off a turbine at the Biglow Canyon wind farm in Sherman County, Oregon, and fell into a field. The report does not give the year of that date or the cause. It...
A wind turbine at the La Casa Wind Farm in Stephens County, Texas, operated by NextEra Energy and owned by La Casa Wind, caught fire early on 14 February 2026 as a thunderstorm passed through the area. The Breckenridge Fire Department, which responded to the...
A damaged wind turbine blade at the Cross Winds Energy Park near Akron in Tuscola County, Michigan, was removed by planned detonation on a Sunday evening. The site is operated by Consumers Energy. The blade had been damaged several months earlier and had been...
A wind turbine at the High Prairie Renewable Energy Center in Schuyler County, Missouri, collapsed on a Wednesday afternoon in a field along Schuyler County Route D, about four miles southeast of Lancaster. The incident occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m. local...
Boston 25 News reported video from Cape Cod showing a broken wind turbine after one blade became detached on Friday afternoon in Bourne. The available account does not name the site, the operator or any injuries, and it does not say what caused the blade to...
On the morning of 23 November 2025, a turbine at the Amazon Wind Farm US East, also known as the Desert Wind facility, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, was photographed with only two blades. Avangrid, which operates the 208 MW site of 104 Gamesa G114...
In November 2025, in the early afternoon, a blade detached from a turbine at Future Generation Wind, a small onshore wind farm in the Buzzards Bay area of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, operated by RWE. Reports described the turbine as around 90...
A man fell about 80 feet from a wind turbine at a Blattner Energy construction site near Enid and was pronounced dead at the scene. Emergency crews responded at about 9 pm to the area of 150th and Phillips after reports of the fall. The Occupational Safety...
Two wind turbine maintenance technicians fell to their deaths on Saturday 22 February 2025 while working at the Plum Creek Wind Farm near Winside, Wayne County, Nebraska. The local sheriff's office said the men, part of a wind turbine maintenance crew, had...
A wind turbine collapsed at the Frontier II wind farm in Oklahoma, United States, on a calm day without strong winds, according to a Notebookcheck report that relied on local media and a Nordex statement. The farm has 74 Nordex N149/4.XMW turbines, each rated...
A wind turbine technician is reported to have fallen to his death from a turbine while working at a wind farm in Wyoming, in the United States. The source does not name the wind farm, the date of the fall, or the circumstances.
A utility confirmed that a 19-year-old Vestas wind turbine tower in Washington State was so visibly damaged that the turbine would have to be decommissioned. The available report does not name the site, the date of the damage, or how the tower was damaged.
A wind turbine collapsed on a private farm east of Kildare in Kay County, northern Oklahoma, with debris scattered across a field. Firefighters responded to a report of the downed turbine at about 7:20 a.m. Residents at least four miles away reported hearing...
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