How many lightning strikes hit the Earth each day?
Science medium Data from 2023
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The answer
8,000,000 strikes
Roughly 8M.
Around 8 million lightning strikes hit the Earth every day — roughly 100 every second. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela gets so many that its storms are visible from 400 km away and were historically used for navigation.
Where this number comes from
| Source | NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2023 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | strikes |
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