How close have I been to lightning?
Use your location or drop a pin anywhere, and this page pulls every strike the detection network has recorded within your chosen radius — adjustable from 1 to 10 miles. The closest one is ringed on the map and listed with its date, time, distance and direction.
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Set a position to get your answer — use the button above or click anywhere on the map.
How to read these results
Strikes are located by the Blitzortung.org volunteer network. Positions carry a mean error of about 5.6 km (3.5 miles), so a strike shown a mile away may have been closer or farther than that, and the network detects a share of all strikes rather than every one. Treat the distances as good estimates, not measurements.
The archive only reaches back to the date shown under your result. A quiet map means nothing was recorded in that window — not that the spot has never been struck. For live activity, the live map shows each strike seconds after it happens, and the data hub has longer-term counts by country, state and county.
If a strike in your list was within a mile, you were inside the range where the next strike of the same storm could have reached you — lightning can strike 10 miles from its parent cell. The 30/30 safety rule explains when a storm is close enough to matter.