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It depends on how well-built the house is. According to the Enhanced Fujita scale it takes winds of about 150 mph (EF3) to reach the level of "most walls collapsed, except small interior rooms" for a well-built house and a 170 mph (EF4) wind to have "all walls collapsed."

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