Every wind turbine incident in public reporting where a tower or turbine collapsed or toppled, onshore and offshore, each with its sources. Free to read.
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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...
In the night to Sunday, which local reporting gives as 25 October 2026, a wind turbine collapsed and fell onto two fields in Weeze, in the Kreis Kleve district of Germany, according to a local report by NRZ. The report says that much about the incident...
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...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 26 April 2026, one of five wind turbines at the Jaunmiki wind park in Bunkas parish, Latvia, collapsed. The wind park is operated and owned by SIA Jaunmiki. The turbine, manufactured in the 1990s, had not produced electricity for three years due to...
A fire broke out at a wind farm in Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, killing three workers. One worker was found dead at the turbine, with two others initially unaccounted for before later being confirmed dead. A major firefighting...
On 2 February 2026, an 80 metre wind turbine at the Byeolparang Park wind farm (Changpo Wind Power Complex) in Yeongdeok-eup, Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea collapsed, with the tower and blades falling across an internal road. Wind...
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 headline reports that a 30-metre wind turbine collapsed in the Přerov region. It says the turbine had been standing idle for weeks because of a fault. The article itself could not be read, so the exact site, any injuries, and the cause of the collapse are...
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...
On 27 October the upper tower segment of an N149/4.X turbine at the 13.5MW Herkentrup wind farm in Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, fell to the ground together with the nacelle, hub and blades. The damage was found in the morning. All necessary safety...
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 4.7 MW wind turbine at the Geumsungsan Wind Power Plant in Hwasun County, Jeonnam, South Korea, broke at the middle of its tower and collapsed at around 2:50am on 21 April 2025. The turbine was one of 11 units at the site and had been in commercial...
A wind turbine at Berrybank Wind Farm, around 80km south-west of Geelong in Victoria, Australia, collapsed after strong gusts and storms. The 112m tall turbine fell, with its blades broken on the ground. The site, operated by Naturgy with Vestas as service...
On 2 February 2025, a blade from a wind turbine at a wind farm in the Kurinjipitiya area of Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka, detached and fell, destroying a storeroom and slightly damaging two nearby houses. No one was inside the storeroom at the time and no injuries...
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...
An onshore wind turbine at Traverse Wind Energy Center in central Oklahoma is reported to have suffered a structural failure during a severe thunderstorm, with reported wind gusts of around 30 miles per hour in the area. Video footage described in reporting...
In 2025, a report described an onshore wind turbine in the central United States collapsing on a day characterised as calm, and a separate turbine being struck by lightning. The report does not state whether the two events involved the same wind farm. The...
Tower 33 at the Halkirk 2 wind project near Castor fell on 8 November 2024 while the recently constructed site was being brought online and introducing power to Alberta's grid. The collapse caused a complete loss of the tower and a suspension order for the...
On 6 June 2024, a wind turbine on a hillside in Beed, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, was reported to have collapsed. A short video report said the tower crumpled and the blades fell to the ground. No one was reported injured. The operator, the site and...
A wind turbine at an older NextEra Energy wind farm near Peetz, Logan County, Colorado, collapsed and caught fire. Firefighters from Peetz and Crook responded to the site between 8 and 9 a.m. after reports that the tower had come down. A local emergency...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 86 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 | 79 | |
| Thermal / fire | 4 | |
| Other | 3 |
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 | 31 | |
| Tower or foundation | 25 | |
| Nacelle, gearbox or generator | 10 | |
| Vessel, crane or lifting | 5 | |
| Transformer or electrical system | 1 | |
| Not stated | 39 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 37 | |
| Germany | 8 | |
| United Kingdom | 7 | |
| Canada | 5 | |
| Sweden | 5 | |
| South Korea | 3 | |
| Australia | 3 | |
| Brazil | 3 | |
| Lithuania | 2 | |
| Netherlands | 2 | |
| Ireland | 2 | |
| Latvia | 1 | |
| Czech Republic | 1 | |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | |
| India | 1 | |
| Chile | 1 | |
| China | 1 | |
| Croatia | 1 | |
| Nicaragua | 1 | |
| Not stated | 1 |
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The register holds 86 wind turbine collapse entries from public reporting, 2009 to 2026, in 19 countries. 4 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are mechanical, other and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are blade (31), tower or foundation (25), nacelle, gearbox or generator (10). 39 of the 86 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), Germany (8), United Kingdom (7) have the most entries. 7 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 collapse 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.
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