C172 pilot reported a loss of directional control after landing in a light crosswind.

Attributes
ACN	1442613
Time
Date	201704
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 13.6 Flight Crew Total 237 Flight Crew Type 103
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Object Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Landed at home airport with 7 knot crosswind. Was down and as I reached to raise the flaps up a gust of wind lifted the plane. As I was raising flaps I had also added aileron which caused the airplane to yaw/turn into the wind; by the time I had recovered I was off runway and hit [a] runway light. I didn't anticipate the wind being blocked by buildings and amount of crosswind that I would experience between and beyond buildings. In hitting the runway light a small amount of the left landing leg [fairing] was [wrinkled] just above step on gear leg. I didn't see any other damage to plane. I inspected the [broken] landing light and reviewed the surface of the runway for debris without walking onto surface and watching for traffic. Didn't see any on the runway. Wind was 270 at 7-9 knots. Landing on runway 36. 30 degrees flaps 65-70 knot landing speed for crosswind.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 pilot reported a loss of directional control after landing in a light crosswind.

Narrative: Landed at home airport with 7 knot crosswind. Was down and as I reached to raise the flaps up a gust of wind lifted the plane. As I was raising flaps I had also added aileron which caused the airplane to yaw/turn into the wind; by the time I had recovered I was off runway and hit [a] runway light. I didn't anticipate the wind being blocked by buildings and amount of crosswind that I would experience between and beyond buildings. In hitting the runway light a small amount of the left landing leg [fairing] was [wrinkled] just above step on gear leg. I didn't see any other damage to plane. I inspected the [broken] landing light and reviewed the surface of the runway for debris without walking onto surface and watching for traffic. Didn't see any on the runway. Wind was 270 at 7-9 knots. Landing on runway 36. 30 degrees flaps 65-70 knot landing speed for crosswind.

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