Four people died from lighting strikes in Florida last year, and it also injures many more people than it kills. Here's how ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

TUOLUMNE COUNTY – Fire crews are revealing new details about what happened during the devastating September Lightning Complex Fire. At a meeting Monday, officials laid out how stretched resources were ...

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal. That’s especially true in Florida, where ...

Students in Environmental Journalism class at the UF College of Journalism and Communications spent their semester reporting on the science, risks and human stories of lightning across Florida, the ...

Lightning, often associated with hills and mountainous terrain, is not confined to high ground and can strike anywhere under the right atmospheric conditions, sometimes with deadly consequences, ...

Some stories sound exaggerated until you discover every detail is documented. Roy Cleveland Sullivan lived one of those lives. Born in rural Virginia in 1912, he grew up near the mountains he would ...