Every wind turbine incident in public reporting that names the nacelle: fires at the top of the tower and what the fire service could and could not do, each with its sources. Free to read.
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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 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...
In the early hours of Monday 30 March 2026, at about 00:45, the nacelle of a wind turbine beside the road between Crostwitz and Sibnitz in the Bautzen district of Saxony, Germany, was fully on fire. The turbine was about 25 years old, was not in operation and...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
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...
On the morning of Monday 2 February 2026, the nacelle of a wind turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Fehmarn caught fire at a height of about 99 metres. The community wind farm on the island of Fehmarn in Schleswig-Holstein has seven turbines and has been in...
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...
On the morning of Wednesday 7 January 2026, a rotor blade on a Nordex wind turbine at the Bedburg A44n wind farm, beside the A44 motorway at the Jackerath interchange near the Garzweiler lignite mine in North Rhine-Westphalia, broke and hung at a dangerous...
At about 13:00 on New Year's Day 2026 a fire broke out in the nacelle, the machine house, of a wind turbine at Süttorf near Neetze in the Lüneburg district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The turbine is about 100 metres high and more than 20 years old. The Ostheide...
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...
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 fire broke out in one of 56 Siemens Gamesa SG 3.4-132 turbines at the 194MW Bulgana Green Power Hub, operated and owned by Neoen, near Great Western, Victoria, which also hosts a 20MW Tesla battery storage system. The Country Fire Authority (CFA) attended...
On 27 February 2025, a GE Vernova Haliade-X 13 MW turbine (AW-38) at the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm off Massachusetts was struck by lightning. The turbine had previously suffered a blade failure in July 2024, when a blade detached and debris washed up...
A wind turbine at a wind farm operated by EnBW in Germany reportedly caught fire, destroying the nacelle and a rotor blade, with debris falling to the ground. The exact site, date and cause have not yet been reported.
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...
A short published report says a nacelle and rotor fell off a Vestas turbine at a wind farm in Canada. The project developer was reported to have paused operations and remaining construction. The wind farm, the turbine model and the cause were not stated in...
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...
During 2024, publicly available industry reporting described three separate incidents at onshore wind sites in the United States (multiple sites) involving Vestas turbines of the same type, the most recent in November 2024. In each case a blade shattered or...
On 15 August 2023 a fire broke out in the nacelle of turbine T06 at the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm, situated about 1.5 miles off the coast of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The blaze produced thick black smoke visible from Lowestoft and other nearby coastal...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 42 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Thermal / fire | 26 | |
| Mechanical | 13 | |
| Electrical | 2 | |
| Other | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Nacelle, gearbox or generator | 42 | |
| Blade | 21 | |
| Tower or foundation | 10 | |
| Vessel, crane or lifting | 7 | |
| Transformer or electrical system | 3 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | |
| Germany | 8 | |
| United Kingdom | 8 | |
| Canada | 6 | |
| Australia | 2 | |
| Netherlands | 2 | |
| Denmark | 1 | |
| Sweden | 1 | |
| Finland | 1 | |
| Nicaragua | 1 | |
| China | 1 | |
| Not stated | 1 |
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The register holds 42 wind turbine nacelle entries from public reporting, 2000 to 2026, in 11 countries. 26 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are mechanical, electrical, other and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are nacelle, gearbox or generator (42), blade (21), tower or foundation (10). 0 of the 42 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 (10), Germany (8), United Kingdom (8) have the most entries. 8 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 nacelle 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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