Lightning strikes in the US an average of 37 million times per year. See where and how dangerous they can be.

Do you live where lightning strikes often? A new study ranks states by lightning per square mile.

For its size, the state usually gets far fewer lightning strikes than the national average, though that hasn’t been quite as true in the recent storms.

Cloud-to-ground lightning density map. Lightning Fatalities are usually associated with leisure activities, work and outdoor tasks around the home. Lightning Safety Council The country averages 20 ...

The state's lightning density averaged 60.9 strikes per square kilometer – the ninth-highest of any state. Average annual lightning activity in the U.S.

Four Corners, Florida, an area just a few miles to the south and west of Orlando, was found to have the highest lightning strike density of anywhere in the entire U.S.

The state's lightning density averaged 60.9 strikes per square kilometer – the ninth-highest of any state. Average annual lightning activity in the U.S.

Counties in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and even Utah appear to be more densely populated on lightning-density maps than others. New data from Vaisala and news outlets give us a clear view.

“To identify each state’s lightning capital, we filtered the gridded density map (where each grid space is 2 km x 2 km) to find the highest density grid cell in each state and identified the ...

A spell of inclement weather – medium to heavy rainfall, lightning, and thunder – hit various parts of Egypt on Sunday evening as a result of an atmospheric depression over the Mediterranean.