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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 ...
Deaths from lightning strikes. Pages in category "Deaths from lightning strikes" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
A Colorado man was killed by a lightning strike on his ranch Saturday, marking the first lightning-caused death in 2024. The ranch is located near Rand, about 120 miles northwest of Denver.
In the northwestern Alabama city of Florence, a 28-year-old man died after lightning struck him in a parking lot Monday, police said – a rarity in the US as only about 20 people on average are ...
2021: A lightning strike killed a 9-year-old boy in a field in Blackpool, England. [ 63 ] 2021: In April, at least 76 people across India were killed by lightning strike on a single weekend; 23 people died on the watchtower of Amer Fort , a popular tourist spot in Rajasthan, and 42 were killed in Uttar Pradesh with the highest toll of 14 ...
A lightning strike in Colorado killed a rancher and 34 of his cows in Jackson County on Saturday, adding to the death toll of devastating storms that have swept across the US over Memorial Day ...
It is estimated that lightning injuries occur 240,000 times a year with 24,000 deaths. [1] Among pregnant women who are hit by lightning, the death of the fetus occurs in about half. [ 1 ] In the United States about 1 in 10,000 people are hit by lightning during their lifetime. [ 1 ]
A 27-year-old man was struck and killed by lightning in western Nebraska last week while checking on cattle. The report from Garden County, Nebraska, was delayed, having occurred on Wednesday ...