Already this spring, two people in the U.S. have been struck and killed by lightning, both while fishing from a boat.

One moment you're grabbing a soda in your garage; the next, 100 million volts have rewritten who you are. In the Atlantic, Jacob Stern digs into what lightning actually does to the human body and mind ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a ...

Three people were struck by lightning in an “incredibly rare” event in Perth, Australia. As a storm swept the city in Western Australia on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 26, it injured three people and ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Tex. - A wind turbine in Breckenridge, Texas, caught fire on Saturday after being struck by lightning. The strike caused the rotor of the Stephen County turbine to break off and continue ...

SAN PASQUAL VALLEY, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Several palm trees located in San Pasqual Valley caught fire after multiple lightning strikes in the area early Tuesday morning, fire officials said.

According to Xweather's Annual Lightning Report, there were 252 million lightning strikes in the U.S. in 2025, an eight-year high and a 20% increase over 2024. The network recorded almost 2 billion ...