California has 4,947 wind turbines: 6.4% of the US total of 77,649. That ranks #4 by count and #23 per person (12.55 per 100,000 residents) of 51.
The map shows 4,000 of the 4,947, spread evenly; the counts and the CSV have them all.
Source: U.S. Wind Turbine Database v9.1 (USGS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, American Clean Power), September 2026. Every turbine in the database inside the 50 states and DC, placed at its own coordinates. Leaves out turbines in federal offshore waters and the territories. Block Island’s five, just off Rhode Island, count in Rhode Island.
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