According to Xweather's Annual Lightning Report, there were 252 million lightning strikes in the U.S. in 2025, an eight-year ...

Over the last 30 years, lightning has killed an average of 51 people per year. Many more strikes result in permanent injury ...

Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous. Meteorologist Matt Bullock explains.

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal. That’s especially true in Florida, where ...

After a day that saw 10,000 lightning strikes across Perth, three people suffer injuries, and a pet dog killed, an expert ...

The numbers are out, and Texas once again topped the list for the most lightning strikes out of any state in the United States, according to an annual report from Vaisala Xweather.

Lightning, often associated with hills and mountainous terrain, is not confined to high ground and can strike anywhere under the right atmospheric conditions, sometimes with deadly consequences, ...

American author and speaker Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning in September 1975 while talking on a telephone during a storm, and doctors said his heart stopped and he was clinically dead for ...