Every wind turbine incident in public reporting that names a blade: blades that broke, fell or burned, onshore and offshore, each with its sources. Free to read.
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Overnight, reported by police on 16 October 2026, the trailer of a heavy-load transporter left a gravel forest track near the Hohe Molmert wind park, near Plettenberg in the Märkischer Kreis, Germany. The trailer was carrying a wind turbine blade weighing...
An offshore wind turbine at the Greater Changhua Northwest offshore wind farm (Greater Changhua 2b and 4) suffered blade damage on 2 October. No personnel were working on the turbine at the time and no vessels were in the safety zone. No injuries or...
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...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
At about 14:00 on Sunday 5 July 2026, a rotor blade became detached from a wind turbine at the Waldhausen wind farm at Aalen-Waldhausen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The blade fell to the ground directly beneath the turbine. Statkraft, which operates the...
On 22 July 2026 a blade failure was detected on one of the Vestas V236-15 turbines at EnBW's 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, which is currently under construction. EnBW said the relevant authorities were notified immediately....
A 25-year-old maintenance worker died after reportedly being pulled into the motor mechanism of a turbine blade while carrying out maintenance work at the 'Aria del Vento' wind farm in Mongrassano, in the province of Cosenza, Italy. The incident is reported...
A fire broke out at the top of a wind turbine tower at the Pubnico Point Wind Farm in West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the evening. By the time fire crews arrived, the nacelle, hub and blades were fully alight. Firefighters were unable to reach the...
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...
On Sunday 14 June 2026, the nacelle of a wind turbine at Bönen, near the boundary with Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia, caught fire at a height of about 95 metres. One of the turbine's 45-metre rotor blades also burned, and the cladding of the nacelle burned...
On 10 June 2026, the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Brave Tern, owned by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, struck Cadeler's vessel Wind Keeper, a shore crane and a pier while manoeuvring in high winds at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark. The vessel had just...
On the evening of Saturday 23 May 2026, a wind turbine more than 100 metres high between Repperndorf and Biebelried, near Kitzingen in Bavaria, caught fire beside the A7 motorway. Several road users reported heavy smoke from the turbine, and fire services...
In May 2026 a turbine blade broke away and fell to the ground at the Lal Lal wind farm near Ballarat, Victoria. Nearby residents reported hearing a loud noise likened to an explosion, and the incident was briefly mischaracterised on social media as sabotage;...
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 morning of 15 May 2026, a blade snapped on a wind turbine over 160 metres tall at the Lal Lal Wind Farm, located off Yendon-Egerton Road south of Ballarat, Victoria. Nearby residents reported hearing loud noises as the blade broke and was left hanging...
On 12 April a blade on a wind turbine in Oga City, Akita Prefecture, broke during operation. The operator reported to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that a lightning strike on 20 March had damaged the blade. Continued running weakened the...
According to a feature article published by EcoPortal.net on 22 October 2026, a wind turbine blade broke off at a 175 MW wind farm in Ragunda municipality, Jämtland county, central Sweden, on Friday 13 March 2026. The article describes 33 turbines rated at...
On Wednesday 18 March 2026, at about 09:00, a rotor blade roughly 60 metres long and weighing about 15 tonnes broke off a Senvion wind turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Berching, in the Neumarkt district of the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. The blade fell...
A fire broke out inside a wind turbine at the Yeongdeok wind power complex in Changpo-ri, Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongbuk province, South Korea. Chosun Ilbo reports that the fire started on 23 March 2026, although a photo caption in the same article...
On 16 March 2026 a blade detached from a turbine at the Wolfe Island Wind Farm in Ontario, Canada, after a weekend of powerful gusts. The nose cone also detached and was reported to have landed about 100 metres away. TransAlta said the site was taken offline...
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...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 119 entries whose own reporting names this, of 332 wind turbine entries in all. A mention in the reporting, not a finding of fault.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical | 87 | |
| Thermal / fire | 30 | |
| Electrical | 1 | |
| Commissioning | 1 |
Counted from the words of each entry's own reporting: an entry counts under each part it names, and "Not stated" means the public reporting named none. A mention, not a finding of fault.
| Part named | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Blade | 119 | |
| Tower or foundation | 29 | |
| Nacelle, gearbox or generator | 24 | |
| Vessel, crane or lifting | 11 | |
| Transformer or electrical system | 2 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 37 | |
| United Kingdom | 21 | |
| Germany | 14 | |
| Canada | 10 | |
| Australia | 8 | |
| Sweden | 6 | |
| Denmark | 3 | |
| Vietnam | 3 | |
| Japan | 2 | |
| South Korea | 2 | |
| Norway | 2 | |
| Taiwan | 1 | |
| Italy | 1 | |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | |
| China | 1 | |
| India | 1 | |
| Brazil | 1 | |
| Croatia | 1 | |
| Nicaragua | 1 | |
| Ireland | 1 | |
| Not stated | 2 |
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The register holds 119 wind turbine blade entries from public reporting, 2009 to 2026, in 20 countries. 30 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are mechanical, electrical, commissioning and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are blade (119), tower or foundation (29), nacelle, gearbox or generator (24). 0 of the 119 entries name no part. The register does not guess a cause; where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
In the reporting the register has found, United States (37), United Kingdom (21), Germany (14) have the most entries. 21 are in the United Kingdom. That partly reflects where the assets are built and where the press reports on them.
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Public reporting on wind turbine blade incidents often names the site but rarely the make, the model or the cause. The register does not guess them. Where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
119 entries so far, 60 since 2024. Confirm your email and every wind turbine incident on the register arrives as a spreadsheet (CSV), free. One email when a new incident is reported, at most two a day, plus a Monday digest. Free, no account needed, unsubscribe in one click.
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