Rating

Low Wind

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with calmer typical conditions using stable fixed scales for annual average wind speed and persistently windy periods.

Sources

4 sources

1991-2020 normals

Data: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly station normals used to derive typical relative humidity, dew point, heat-index, and wind exposure at each place.
What it tells us: Provides typical hourly dampness, sticky-air, heat-index, and wind conditions from nearby stations, not indoor measurements, current weather, or a hyperlocal microclimate.

current reference

Data: NWS reference bands relate wind speeds to familiar calm, light-air, light-breeze, gentle-breeze, moderate-breeze, and stronger conditions.
What it tells us: Grounds the fixed annual-average wind-speed anchors in familiar wind-speed language; it does not turn an annual mean into a forecast or gust rating.

Current dedicated Target Elevation fact run

Data: Official Populated Place coordinates and Census place codes used to select a community-core point instead of a potentially unrepresentative boundary centroid.
What it tells us: Identifies the named settlement point sampled for elevation; unmatched places and a documented reviewed geography exception retain their Census internal point explicitly.

Current dedicated Target Elevation fact run

Data: Bilinear terrain-elevation sample at the representative community coordinate selected for each place, with a small nearby-sample fallback for exact no-data cells.
What it tells us: Provides the representative place elevation used to measure distance from the selected target; it does not describe the full elevation range within the place.

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