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Lightning Stats shows every lightning strike on Earth as it happens, using live data from the Blitzortung.org community detection network. The map keeps a rolling 30-minute window: fresh strikes flash in bright yellow with an expanding ring, then fade toward red as they age.
The map is drawn over live satellite imagery, and you can switch on a density heatmap grid with per-cell strike counts and sound alerts that tick for every strike in view. The strike archive ranks live totals by country and keeps daily counts, all-time records, and a browsable history for every country.
The map shows lightning strikes detected by Blitzortung.org, a community network of thousands of volunteer-run receiver stations. Each station records the radio signal a strike emits, and the network locates the strike from the tiny differences in arrival time. New strikes appear on the map within seconds.
Strikes typically appear one to a few seconds after they happen. The map always shows the last 30 minutes of activity, with the newest strikes drawn brightest and on top.
Color encodes age within the 30-minute window: bright yellow dots are the most recent strikes, fading through orange and red to dark purple for the oldest. Strikes younger than ten seconds get a red ring.
Blitzortung.org is a non-commercial, community-driven lightning detection network. Volunteers around the world operate low-cost receiver hardware, and the project combines their measurements into free, real-time lightning data.
Yes. Lightning Stats is completely free — no account, no ads. It exists because watching storms live is fascinating.