The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...

Ruinous fires across the West often lead to smoke-filled days with flames tearing through large swaths of natural land. While most of these fires are started by people, many fires start because of ...

Thousands of lightning strikes have been recorded in California recently as portions of the state gear up for more storms, bringing with them potential wildfires. The state's northern half saw 1,681 ...

A lightning strike is the likely cause of a fire that burned a home in Holly Springs just hours after lightning sparked a fire at a Wake Forest home. A lightning strike is the likely cause of a fire ...

An intense thunderstorm system moved into Southern California from northern Mexico on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, bringing scattered rain and the potential for more storms throughout the day. The ...

A house in Pleasantville, New York, suffered considerable damage from a lightning strike on July 8, 1994. Lightning-related homeowner insurance claims in the U.S. totaled $1.04 billion in 2024, a ...

More than a dozen new wildfires ignited across the Cascades over the weekend from lightning strikes, adding to an already grueling wildfire season in Washington and the broader Pacific Northwest.

Cheryl Schweizer, Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. Aug. 8—MOSES LAKE — A lightning strike during a Monday morning thunderstorm cut power to customers in the Warden and Moses Lake areas, while ...