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About 3,000 fires a year are started by lightning strikes.
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About 3 000 bushfire per year are started by lighting strikes.
On average, about 20-30 people die from lightning strikes in the United States each year. However, this number can vary annually.
About 3000 brush fires per year are started by lightning strikes.
For 2008 NOAA reports that there were 296,499 "Cloud to Ground" strikes in Wisconsin, which is very near the average number of strikes reported from 1996-2008 of 302,5321 strikes per year. From 1992-1995 the National Lightning Detection Network lists that there were almost 22 million strikes in the United States per year. Additionally, for the period 2000-2009 there were 7 deaths caused by lightning strikes in Wisconsin. For the reporting period from 1959 to 1994 there were 194 injuries from lightning strikes reported.
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In the u.s. lightning strikes about 40 million times in one year.
Although many lightning flashes are simply cloud-to-cloud, there are as many as 9,000,000 reported lightning strikes that damage buildings, trees, and other objects every year.Worldwide, it is estimated that of an annual 1.4 billion lightning bolts, 25% (more than 350 million) will strike the Earth's surface or objects on the surface. The vast majority of these strikes, however, occur in the tropics, and in unpopulated areas.100 times per second;Lightning can strike over a thousand times in one storm. So, lightning strikes the earth over a million times a day.Globally, 8,640,000 lightning strikes per day. See the related link for more information.
at any one time there are almost 30 lightning strikes in the world
Africa gets the most lightning strikes.