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So before moving to the western U.S. many years ago, I had never heard of dry lightning. Where I was raised lightning was accompanied by rain and usually lots of it. However ... Each year, an estimated 17,400 fires are attributed to lightning. Annually, these fires result in approximately 10 civilian deaths, 75 civilian injuries, and $138 million in property damage. (The casualties described are those that result from fires caused by lightning, not those that result from direct lightning strikes.) Casualty losses per lightning fire are considerably less than those from all U.S. fires, but the dollar loss per fire is nearly twice as high.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 18:52:32 +0000

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