Kern County, Calif., has the United States’ highest population of wind turbines at 4,581, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Kern County has a total wind power capacity of 4 gigawatts and more turbines than the entire northeast of America.
Riverside, Calif., and Alameda, Calif., have 2,373 and 1,430 wind turbines, respectively. Nolan County in Texas ranks fourth with 1,374 turbines, and Gilliam County in Oregon places fifth with 679 turbines.
The USGS generated the database in partnership with the Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the American Wind Energy Association.
