Lightning Damage: The New Storm

7/28/2022 (Permalink)

Have you ever wondered what could happen when lightning strikes your home? 

Firstly, did you know that lightning is more likely to strike your home if it was built on a waterway? Lightning is attracted to water. We recently had a fire damage clean-up in a home that took more than a year to complete (including reconstruction) because it struck a light fixture in the basement and inflamed three floors of the home. Lightning damage can create several different types of damage to your home. Here are a few types of lightning damage: 

• Fired damage - caused by a direct strike to wood or other flammable substance
• Electrical shorts - caused by electricity traveling through your wiring
• Shock wave damage - damage caused by the wave of energy released during a strike.

Whether it is storm or lightning damage, we are here to help after the storm settles.