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The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four fatalities in 2025.

Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

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.

Florida, the lightning capital of the United States, leads the nation in both the density of lightning strikes and deaths by lightning.

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