Lightning strikes in Italy

The detection network has located 360,592 lightning strikes in Italy since the archive began, including 173,537 in the last 7 days. That is 3.88% of all detected strikes worldwide, ranking Italy #4 of 143 countries with recorded lightning. Italy is counted under Europe in the continent totals.

Daily strikes, last 14 days

Day (UTC)	Detected strikes
2026-08-14	3
2026-08-13	25,547
2026-08-12	52,592
2026-08-11	31,692
2026-08-10	9,851
2026-08-09	29,493
2026-08-08	24,359
2026-08-07	3,176
2026-08-06	18,572
2026-08-05	32,951
2026-08-04	13,626
2026-08-03	15,193
2026-08-02	26,975
2026-08-01	19,939

Strikes by state or province

Regions follow Natural Earth admin-1 boundaries. "Unassigned" counts strikes inside Italy's territory but outside every region polygon, mostly coastal water and lakes.

#	State / province	Strikes	Last 7 days	Share
1	Trentino-South Tyrol	28,211	6,365	7.8%
2	Cuneo	24,228	8,885	6.7%
3	Trentino	23,798	7,605	6.6%
4	Turin	22,425	15,520	6.2%
5	L'Aquila	12,096	4,767	3.4%
6	Belluno	10,949	3,165	3.0%
7	Brescia	10,376	5,048	2.9%
8	Frosinone	9,201	4,492	2.6%
9	Vicenza	8,512	3,541	2.4%
10	Sondrio	6,644	2,630	1.8%
11	Potenza	6,594	3,710	1.8%
12	Udine	6,584	2,898	1.8%
13	Perugia	6,552	3,772	1.8%
14	Siena	6,343	5,338	1.8%
15	Rieti	6,046	2,238	1.7%
16	Salerno	5,820	4,037	1.6%
17	Bergamo	5,793	3,608	1.6%
18	Aosta	5,692	2,670	1.6%
19	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	5,329	854	1.5%
20	Nuoro	5,254	879	1.5%
21	Catania	5,142	3,897	1.4%
22	Unassigned	5,055	2,889	1.4%
23	Catanzaro	4,875	2,335	1.4%
24	Olbia-Tempio	4,777	104	1.3%
25	Arezzo	4,549	3,574	1.3%
26	Rome	4,373	3,279	1.2%
27	Cosenza	4,343	2,574	1.2%
28	Treviso	4,274	611	1.2%
29	Florence	4,175	3,725	1.2%
30	Vercelli	3,936	1,211	1.1%
31	Avellino	3,828	1,237	1.1%
32	Liguria	3,748	3,211	1.0%
33	Ogliastra	3,719	1,241	1.0%
34	Terni	3,575	2,022	1.0%
35	Benevento	3,340	1,236	0.9%
36	Parma	3,304	3,161	0.9%
37	Lecco	3,278	2,206	0.9%
38	Reggio Emilia	3,247	2,866	0.9%
39	Imperia	3,138	1,845	0.9%
40	Enna	3,037	1,929	0.8%
41	Viterbo	2,918	2,749	0.8%
42	Isernia	2,565	889	0.7%
43	Piacenza	2,507	1,598	0.7%
44	Macerata	2,488	1,395	0.7%
45	Modena	2,409	2,319	0.7%
46	Messina	2,177	1,996	0.6%
47	Pisa	2,071	2,040	0.6%
48	Grosseto	1,998	1,875	0.6%
49	Campobasso	1,985	402	0.6%
50	Pordenone	1,970	808	0.5%
51	Palermo	1,863	1,531	0.5%
52	Massa-Carrara	1,760	1,648	0.5%
53	Cagliari	1,693	746	0.5%
54	Caserta	1,484	1,003	0.4%
55	Varese	1,401	0	0.4%
56	Reggio Calabria	1,379	596	0.4%
57	Forlì-Cesena	1,319	576	0.4%
58	Sassari	1,261	356	0.3%
59	Lucca	1,254	1,194	0.3%
60	Cremona	1,191	7	0.3%
61	Syracuse	1,177	288	0.3%
62	Ragusa	1,152	851	0.3%
63	Bologna	1,097	1,006	0.3%
64	Teramo	1,021	435	0.3%
65	Agrigento	964	906	0.3%
66	Savona	953	56	0.3%
67	Como	947	136	0.3%
68	Matera	943	362	0.3%
69	Pesaro and Urbino	938	21	0.3%
70	Oristano	920	344	0.3%
71	Ascoli Piceno	857	368	0.2%
72	Foggia	784	357	0.2%
73	Lecce	773	382	0.2%
74	Biella	722	195	0.2%
75	Pavia	699	489	0.2%
76	Tyrol	679	112	0.2%
77	Pistoia	654	653	0.2%
78	Caltanissetta	653	618	0.2%
79	La Spezia	608	606	0.2%
80	Naples	603	517	0.2%
81	Verona	601	385	0.2%
82	Alessandria	581	506	0.2%
83	Vibo Valentia	576	247	0.2%
84	Bari	576	47	0.2%
85	Chieti	540	243	0.1%
86	Fermo	491	292	0.1%
87	Ancona	479	85	0.1%
88	Monza and Brianza	415	0	0.1%
89	Pescara	408	301	0.1%
90	Prato	395	395	0.1%
91	Latina	392	366	0.1%
92	Padua	362	18	0.1%
93	Novara	321	1	0.1%
94	Carinthia	278	93	0.1%
95	Grisons	276	60	0.1%
96	Ferrara	263	157	0.1%
97	Brindisi	252	0	0.1%
98	Crotone	242	21	0.1%
99	Ticino	237	27	0.1%
100	Milan	225	0	0.1%
101	Taranto	224	0	0.1%
102	Alpes-Maritimes	190	143	0.1%
103	Trapani	185	104	0.1%
104	Gorizia	160	160	0.0%
105	Rimini	158	5	0.0%
106	Valais	136	49	0.0%
107	Venice	108	0	0.0%
108	Asti	72	24	0.0%
109	Rovigo	53	31	0.0%
110	Kranjska Gora	50	12	0.0%
111	Ravenna	41	4	0.0%
112	Bovec	40	12	0.0%
113	Barletta-Andria-Trani	35	15	0.0%
114	Carbonia-Iglesias	30	30	0.0%
115	Mantua	30	19	0.0%
116	Medio Campidano	21	21	0.0%
117	Hautes-Alpes	21	7	0.0%
118	Savoie	20	8	0.0%
119	Trieste	17	9	0.0%
120	Kanal ob Soči	17	0	0.0%
121	Salzburg	12	4	0.0%
122	Sežana	11	7	0.0%
123	Miren–Kostanjevica	11	11	0.0%
124	Kobarid	10	0	0.0%
125	Lodi	9	0	0.0%
126	Brda	9	1	0.0%
127	Haute-Savoie	5	3	0.0%
128	Livorno	3	3	0.0%
129	Šempeter–Vrtojba	3	3	0.0%
130	Hrpelje-Kozina	2	2	0.0%
131	Nova Gorica	1	1	0.0%
132	Tolmin	1	0	0.0%

These are detected strikes, and detection coverage differs by region; the data hub explains the method and its limits. For the climatological picture, see which countries get the most lightning.

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