Score
Low Wind
Lower average wind speed scores higher using NOAA 1991-2020 hourly climate normals.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Low Wind rewards places with lower average wind speed from NOAA hourly climate normals.
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Wind burden is the confidence-shrunk annual average hourly-normal wind speed.
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The score is inverse percentile-rank normalized over the full scored distribution, so lower average wind speed scores higher.
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Windy-hour counts are retained as supporting facts but do not change the current score formula.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Low Wind.
What This Score Means
Low Wind rewards places with lower average wind speed from NOAA hourly climate normals.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Annual average wind speedSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly
Average hourly-normal wind speed in miles per hour.
- Windy hoursSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly
Annual count of hourly normals at or above 15 mph.
- Very windy hoursSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly
Annual count of hourly normals at or above 20 mph.
- Station match confidenceSource: Derived from NOAA station matches
Derived from station count, distance, and elevation fit for the place.
Source Data
Known Limits
- Hourly station normals are environmental proxies, not forecasts or indoor-environment measurements.
- Nearby stations are weighted by distance and elevation fit, then lower-confidence estimates are shrunk toward the all-place mean.
- Allergy-risk scores do not include local spore counts, medical outcomes, building ventilation, or indoor humidity.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Low Wind.