Not me. I'm very afraid of lightning.

It kills a lot of people each year.

Start with this: It's estimated that 40% of lightning strikes on people go unreported.

91% of strikes are one person alone. 9% involved more than one person getting zapped at the same time.

Death by states (from highest to lowest): FL, MI, TX, NY, TN

Location of Incident (don't know how bikes fit into this):

40% Unreported.
27% Open fields & recreation areas (not golf).
14% Under trees (not golf).
8% Water-related (boating, fishing, swimming…).
5% Golf/golf under trees.
3% Heavy equipment and machinery-related.
2.4% Telephone-related (use a cordless or cell phone during a storm).
0.7% Radio, transmitter & antenna-related.


The most frequent days (obvious one here) is Saturday and Sunday. Next is, for some reason, Wednesday.

The above was from the Lightning Safety Institute (didn't know it existed).

Below is from National Geographic:

Lightning is a killer. It claims more victims each year than do snowstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes. It keeps a low profile as the second largest weather-related killer, usually striking one person at a time. Only floods, which can wipe out towns, kill more people.

According to the U.S. National Weather Service, 73 people die from lightning strikes each year and hundreds more suffer life-debilitating injuries. Memory loss, attention deficits, sleep disorders, numbness, dizziness, and weakness are some of the maladies cited.

The highest death rates from lightning in the United States are in Florida, which is known as the lightning capital of the country. According to the service, from 1959 to 2003 lightning killed 3,696 people in the United States. Of those, 425 were in the Sunshine State. (The only state that did not record a lightning death in the period was Alaska).

Lightning has injured at least 2,000 people in Florida since 1959.