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Lightning Protection Standards: Which Code Applies?
Your insurer asks if your building meets lightning protection rules. You can’t answer; not because you skipped protection, but because no resource explains which standard applies.

Lightning Protection System Design: A Risk Assessment Guide
Lightning protection system design links decisions across risk classification, component placement, and compliance. When calculation logic lives in one standard and component selection lives in another,

Arctic Lightning Is Increasing: Risk Implications in 2026
Two major lightning networks track strikes above the Arctic Circle. One shows a dramatic fivefold increase over the past decade; the other shows minimal change. If

Lightning Safety Protocols for Outdoor Operations
Standard lightning safety rules tell you what to do, but they don’t often tell you why those rules work. That gap leaves you guessing when the

Lightning Risk Management: Protocols and Procedures
The sky darkens. Thunder rolls in from the west. Your crew looks up from the rooftop, waiting for someone to make the call. The storm is

Inside the Intelligence: How AI Enhances Skytree Scientific’s LRA Plus™
A deep-dive into the artificial intelligence architecture behind the world’s most advanced lightning risk assessment platform. Lightning risk assessment has never been simple. For decades, engineers

Lightning Risk in the Digital Era
From Advanced Lightning Data to Automated IEC Compliance Florent Giraudet (Metarresters) | Kelly Buza + Jim Grasty (Skytree Scientific) March 2026 Introduction: Why Lightning Data Quality Matters

The 2024 Lightning Reset: Why Your 2010 Risk Assessment is Now a Liability
For over a decade, the global standard for protecting infrastructure from lightning remained largely static. Engineers used the same formulas, the same maps, and the same

Annual Insight Report: Lightning Activity & Climate Risk
At Skytree, we don’t just build weather-informed software—we translate data into strategic clarity for infrastructure resilience. This year’s Lightning Trends Report combines cutting-edge observations from 2025 with climate

If Lightning Hit This… Hospital Edition
Hospitals are among the most sensitive facilities in any infrastructure network. They are designed with redundancy, backup power, and layered safety systems – but lightning risk

Beyond the Headlines: The Data Point Infrastructure Managers Can’t Ignore
While the headlines regarding the new “Lightning Capital” are certainly attention-grabbing; as we discussed previously – we found a far more significant data point for the

Dethroned: Oklahoma Takes the Lightning Crown
For the first time in four years, a Florida city is no longer the lightning capital of the United States. While Florida’s “Four Corners” region held