In 2012, there were 29 lightning fatalities in 17 states.
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No. |
Date |
Day |
ST |
City |
Age |
Sex |
Location |
Activity |
Victim |
| 1 | 3/30 | Fri | AL | Greenville | 12 | M | Under Tree | Playing | Aven Brett Schofield |
| 2 | 4/11 | Wed | LA | Ponchatoula | 54 | M | Small metal structure under tree | Had been fishing | Luther Clyde Baham, Sr. |
| 3 | 4/11 | Wed | LA | Ponchatoula | 33 | M | Small metal structure under tree | Had been fishing | Luther Clyde Baham, Jr. |
| 4 | 6/8 | Fri | FL | Lake Okeechobee | 51 | M | Boat in lake | Fishing | Lorenzo Magdaleno |
| 5 | 6/23 | Sat | VT | Post Mills | 16 | M | Farm field | Harvesting | Connor Cook |
| 6 | 6/30 | Sat | TX | Houston | 33 | M | Open area | Utility repair | John Henry JanseVanRensburg |
| 7 | 7/3 | Tue | OH | Zanesville | 60 | M | Under tree | Working in Yard | Dick Sorg |
| 8 | 7/7 | Sat | NJ | Monmouth Beach | 48 | F | Beach | Family Outing | Indira Tursanova |
| 9 | 7/7 | Sat | KS | Coffey County | 68 | M | Front Yard | Family gathering | Ronald Nicholas |
| 10 | 7/7 | Sat | IL | Nashville | 51 | M | Outside home | Stepping out door | Steven J. Rybacki |
| 11 | 7/13 | Fri | GA | Peachtree City | 52 | M | Under tree by boat ramp | Fishing | Burnette Hayes |
| 12 | 7/13 | Fri | OK | Ada | 61 | M | Driveway of home | Ray Marshall | |
| 13 | 7/15 | Sun | TX | Aldine | 27 | M | Under tree | Soccer | Jose Romero |
| 14 | 7/15 | Sun | TX | Aldine | 26 | M | Under tree | Soccer | Angel Delgado |
| 15 | 7/16 | Mon | AL | Huntsville | 40 | M | Driveway of Home | Daniel Roets | |
| 16 | 7/21 | Sat | UT | Boulder Mntn | 24 |
M |
Under tree | Fishing | Jesse King |
| 17 | 7/23 | Mon | CA | Nevada County | 71 | M | Near trees | Camping | Frank Baeta |
| 18 | 7/24 | Tue | PA | Garrett | 36 | F | Under tree | Picking Berries | Mary Yoder |
| 19 | 7/26 | Thu | KY | Lexington | 67 | F | Outside | Installing watering system | Kathlyn Friend |
| 20 | 8/5 | Sun | PA | Long Pond | 41 | M | Parking lot | NASCAR race | Brian Zimmerman |
| 21 | 8/6 | Mon | FL | Shell Island | 42 | M | Beach | Walking to boat | James Keith Brown |
| 22 | 8/6 | Mon | FL | Shell Island | 14 | M | Beach | Being carried | Tristan Barger |
| 23 | 8/9 | Thu | GA | Atlanta | 35 | M | Outside under roof | Building Maintenance | ? |
| 24 | 8/15 | Wed | NJ | Long Branch | 41 | M | Beach | Fishing | Sebastian Castillo |
| 25 | 8/18 | Sat | MN | Duluth | 9 | M | Beach | Sailing | Luke Voigt |
| 26 | 8/19 | Sun | NC | Wilmington | 50 | M | Near tree | Fishing | Timothy Godwin |
| 27 | 9/7 | Fri | NJ | Demarest | 71 | M | Near tree | Watching soccer game | Viktor Ovsyankin |
| 28 | 9/7 | Fri | FL | Lakeland | 16 | M | Under tree | Moving bike | James Pinkstaff |
| 29 | 10/3 | Wed | FL | Ft. Myers | 11 | M | Open field | Football practice | Jesse Watlington |
2012 Lightning Fatality Demographics |
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State
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Gender
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Age
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Day Of Week
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By Month
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| AL | 2 | M | 26 (90%) | 0-9 | 1 (4%) | Sun | 4 (14%) | 12 | 11 | 10 |
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07
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06
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Norm*
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| CA | 1 | F | 3 (10%) | 10-19 | 5 (17%) | Mon | 4 (14%) | Jan | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0
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1
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0
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1
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0
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| FL | 5 | 20-29 | 3 (10%) | Tue | 2 (7%) | Feb | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0
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1
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0
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0
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| GA | 2 | 30-39 | 4 (14%) | Wed | 3 (11%) | Mar | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1
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0
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1
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0
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1
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| IL | 1 | 40-49 | 5 (17%) | Thu | 2 (7%) | Apr | 2 | 0 | 0 |
1
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0
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1
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3
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2
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| KS | 1 | 50-59 | 5 (17%) | Fri | 6 (21%) | May | 0 | 1 | 4 |
2
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2
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5
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5
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6
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| KY | 1 | 60-69 | 4 (14%) | Sat | 7 (25%) | Jun | 3 | 5 | 7 |
12
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10
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14 |
10
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12
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| LA | 2 | 70-79 | 2 (7%) | Jul | 13 | 9 | 11 |
11
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14
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10
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16
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16
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| MN | 1 | 80-89 | 0 (0%) | Aug | 7 | 6 | 4 |
3
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0
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9
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7
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12
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| NC | 1 | Sep | 2 | 4 | 2 |
4
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1
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5
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4
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5
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| NJ | 3 | Oct | 1* | 1 | 1 |
1
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0
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2
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2
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1
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| OH | 1 | Nov | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| OK | 1 | Dec | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0
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0
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0
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0
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| PA | 2 | Year | 29* | 26 | 29 |
35
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29
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47
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48
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54
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| TX | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| UT | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| VT | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. | * - Known Fatalities to date | |||||||||||||||
Note: Monthly normals are based on the 30-year average of 54 deaths per year (1982-2011) multiplied by the average monthly percentage of annual deaths from 1959-1994 as documented in NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS SR-193 with Dec 1961 plane crash fatalities removed from the data.
