The Grand Canyon's North Rim in Arizona closed Thursday because of a wildfire on adjacent Bureau of Land Management land near Jacob Lake that began Wednesday evening after a thunderstorm moved through ...

PINE VALLEY, Utah (ABC4) — Amid intense wildfire dangers in Southern Utah, lightning continues to pose a risk for more fire starts. The science behind how lightning can spark a fire is more ...

An unseasonable series of thunderstorms was sweeping across Southern California on Tuesday, bringing with them the potential for fire-starting lightning strikes in areas with limited rainfall. In ...

The odds of lightning hitting your house are 1 in 200 according to the National Lightning Safety Council. The odds of it starting a fire are even less. But for one house in Antioch, luck was not ...

Thunderstorms sweep across SoCal, with lightning bringing risk of fire starts. The Fish fire ignited Tuesday in Inyo County amid multiple lightning strikes, officials said.

Editor’s Note: Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway Airports were both under ground stops due to thunder and lightning Friday morning. The ground stops were expected to last through at least 6:30 a.m.

Lightning, thunder, heavy rain lead to ground stops at O'Hare, Midway About 5:15 a.m., NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Kevin Jeanes reported as many as 150 lightning strikes over parts of Cook ...

The Seminole County Fire Department responded to a call regarding a house fire after lightning struck the home.At approximately 7:28 p.m., units were dispatched to a single-story residential ...

Texas is the lightning state of America, according to a recent study by Vaisala. In fact, Texas had more lightning in 2024 than the next three states combined.