Lightning Victims

Lightning kills about 20 people each year in the United States and hundreds more are injured. Some survivors suffer lifelong neurological damage. Here's more information on the victims and the survivors.

• Real Life Survivor Stories
• Medical Effects of Being Struck by Lightning and Resources for Survivors
• Odds of Being Struck
• The Dr Lightning Show: Victims
• How people are struck by lightning
• Details on U.S. Lightning Deaths: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
• Analysis of Lightning Fatalities: 2006-2019
• Lightning Deaths by State and Deaths Population Weighted: 1959-2017, 2008-2017
• U.S. lightning fatalities since the 1940s