Every onshore and offshore wind turbine incident in public reporting: nacelle fires, blade failures, collapses and the injuries that followed, each with its sources. Free to read.
314 entries so far, 134 since 2024. Confirm your email and the full list arrives as a spreadsheet (CSV). One email when a newly reported incident is confirmed, at most two a day, plus a Monday digest. Free, no account needed, unsubscribe in one click.
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Newest incident first. Each entry is free to read, with what happened and its sources; the record behind it adds the cause where it is established, the part that failed, the downtime and the loss.
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...
A wind turbine at a wind farm on the Cruz de Hierro pass, in Aldeavieja, Ávila province, Castilla y León, caught fire on Monday 12 October 2026. Emergency calls to the 112 service reported the fire at about 11:08 local time. The incident prompted a response...
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...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source. One entry's record is £2.99 on its page.
A man in his forties died after a fall while carrying out tasks inside a wind turbine on the Pohénégamook-Picard-Saint-Antonin-Wolastokuk (PPAW) construction site, in the chemin Champoux sector, on 27 September 2026. Emergency services attended and he was...
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...
In 2026, a turbine at Ørsted's Greater Changhua 4 offshore wind farm off Taiwan automatically tripped after its monitoring system detected an abnormal condition. The site team subsequently observed a fire on the turbine, which was extinguished a short time...
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...
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...
RWE says it is investigating an incident on 10 June involving turbine components during loading onto a jack-up installation vessel. The components were being handled for offshore wind deployment at the Thor offshore wind farm, as part of transport and...
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...
All 274 onshore wind incidents, with filters
The 40 offshore wind incidents, with filters
Counted from the register on 12 October 2026. 314 wind entries: 274 onshore and 40 offshore.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical | 170 | |
| Thermal / fire | 102 | |
| Other | 26 | |
| Electrical | 12 | |
| Gas release | 1 | |
| Commissioning | 1 | |
| Near-miss | 1 | |
| Control system | 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 | 115 | |
| Tower or foundation | 56 | |
| Nacelle, gearbox or generator | 49 | |
| Vessel, crane or lifting | 40 | |
| Transformer or electrical system | 9 | |
| Not stated | 128 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 99 | |
| United Kingdom | 54 | |
| Germany | 28 | |
| Canada | 23 | |
| Australia | 16 | |
| Sweden | 9 | |
| Netherlands | 9 | |
| China | 7 | |
| Taiwan | 6 | |
| South Korea | 5 | |
| Norway | 5 | |
| Spain | 4 | |
| Denmark | 4 | |
| Brazil | 4 | |
| Ireland | 4 | |
| Japan | 3 | |
| India | 3 | |
| New Zealand | 2 | |
| Sri Lanka | 2 | |
| Belgium | 2 | |
| Chile | 2 | |
| Lithuania | 2 | |
| Vietnam | 2 | |
| Italy | 1 | |
| Latvia | 1 | |
| Kenya | 1 | |
| Czech Republic | 1 | |
| Ukraine | 1 | |
| France | 1 | |
| Austria | 1 | |
| Croatia | 1 | |
| Finland | 1 | |
| Nicaragua | 1 | |
| Not stated | 9 |
Send up to eight company names (operators, owners, manufacturers, contractors) and the editor sends back a short brief by email: every published wind turbine entry that names them, with its sources, and a plain line where a name has no entries. Free, once, no account.
The register holds 314 wind turbine entries from public reporting, 2000 to 2026, in 33 countries. 102 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are mechanical, other, electrical and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are blade (115), tower or foundation (56), nacelle, gearbox or generator (49). 128 of the 314 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 (99), United Kingdom (54), Germany (28) have the most entries. 54 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 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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