The most electrified place in the country is no longer the Sunshine State. New data for 2025 shows that Florida has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida is no longer No. 1. But when it comes to lightning, maybe that's not such a bad thing. Oklahoma is now the lightning ...

“The shift signals a broader surge in lightning activity across the Great Plains,” according to a new report ...

The United States has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Sunshine State, which may be just as well-known for its storm activity, is no longer the lightning capital of the U.S., according to a new report. Oklahoma unseated Florida in 2025 ...

Orange County sheriff's deputies search Orlando's Lake Fairview following a lightning strike tragedy that killed two young rowers in 2022. (Courtesy of WESH) When the thunderstorm rolled across ...

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 ...