Missouri
2025 Lightning Report: Missouri makes top 10 as U.S. flashes surge 10%
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Last year, 88.4 million lightning strikes occurred across the United States. Missouri ranked 10th in lightning flashes per square mile.
Lightning flashes increased 10 percent in 2025 compared to 2024.
With nearly 90 million flashes last year, that amounts to 3.7 flashes an hour and 62,000 flashes a minute.
43 percent of the strikes were cloud-to-ground flashes, meaning the majority, 57 percent, were cloud-to-cloud.
Oklahoma ranked No. 1 with 73 flashes of lightning per square mile, and Texas ranked No. 1 with 13.3 million flashes total in 2024.
Kansas came in fourth with more than 5 million strikes, and Missouri ranked 11th at 2.6 million.
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