Derechos and the biggest severe wind days on record
The record is 1,053 damaging wind reports on June 29, 2012. A derecho is a long-lived line of damaging wind. The database does not mark them, so this list shows the days with the most wind damage, whatever kind of storm caused it.
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By decade
Days with 300 or more wind reports, or 15 or more of 75 knots or more. Reporting has grown a lot, so recent decades read high.