Vaisala Xweather Annual Lightning Report 2025: U.S. lightning hits eight-year high 252 million lightning strikes recorded in 2025 with the peak lightning day arriving weeks ahead of storm season.

Nearly 69,000 lightning strikes hit Davidson County last year, per weather data firm Vaisala Xweather. But the state's most intense lightning last year was just over the county line in Rutherford ...

The National Lightning Safety Council (NLSC) announced this week that 13 people were killed by lightning in 2023, the second-lowest number since 2001 and well under the 10-year average of 22. The ...

The small East Texas town of Teague has been named the lightning capital of the United States after recording more than 1,900 lightning strikes per square mile in 2024, according to an annual report ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Severe weather was a story for many nationally last year. A newly released report by the Vaisala U.S. National Lightning Detection Network tallied all of the lightning strikes ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — 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. In ...

Vaisala Xweather, a Finnish company offering products and services for industrial and environmental measurements, has released a report on 2024 lightning events around the world. In its analysis, ...