---
title: Lightning — U.S. toll in 2025 (NOAA)
peril: Lightning
year: 2025
source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database
sourceId: src:noaa:ncei:storm-events-database
---

# Lightning — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **20 direct deaths**, **95 injuries**, and **$22,600,150 property damage** (+ $15,400 crop) from Lightning, across **37 states** (283 events). That is 3.2% of all recorded 2025 hazard deaths.

**How to read this:** one **volatile year** (a major event in another year changes it sharply) — NOT "the deadliest hazard in history." Deaths are NOAA **"direct" deaths only**; indirect deaths are excluded. Damage is NOAA's reported estimate, not insured loss. This is the recorded past toll, **not a forecast of your risk** — for that, see the per-state/county risk profiles and the National Weather Service.

## Where lightning took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FLORIDA | 4 | $621,500 |
| TEXAS | 3 | $6,540,000 |
| GEORGIA | 2 | $287,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 2 | $152,000 |
| NEW JERSEY | 2 | $38,000 |
| OKLAHOMA | 2 | — |
| MISSISSIPPI | 1 | $465,000 |
| WISCONSIN | 1 | $165,000 |
| KENTUCKY | 1 | $51,000 |
| PUERTO RICO | 1 | $46,000 |

RECORDED NOAA Storm Events figures. Not history, not your risk, not a forecast. Your exposure: `/property/states/<state>` and `/property/counties/<fips>`. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/

Structured data: `/property/hazards/lightning.jsonld`