Lightning strikes in Venezuela

The detection network has located 1,042 lightning strikes in Venezuela since the archive began, including 408 in the last 7 days. That is 0.01% of all detected strikes worldwide, ranking Venezuela #68 of 143 countries with recorded lightning. Venezuela is counted under South America in the continent totals.

Daily strikes, last 14 days

Day (UTC)	Detected strikes
2026-08-14	24
2026-08-13	78
2026-08-12	36
2026-08-11	9
2026-08-10	8
2026-08-09	198
2026-08-08	55
2026-08-07	1
2026-08-06	93
2026-08-05	109
2026-08-04	78
2026-08-03	40
2026-08-02	13
2026-08-01	94

Strikes by state or province

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

#	State / province	Strikes	Last 7 days	Share
1	Unassigned	206	35	19.8%
2	Bolívar	164	85	15.7%
3	Guárico State	115	88	11.0%
4	Apure	113	65	10.8%
5	Zulia	86	7	8.3%
6	Barinas	79	48	7.6%
7	Cojedes	56	14	5.4%
8	Amazonas	48	13	4.6%
9	Portuguesa	43	14	4.1%
10	Monagas	35	6	3.4%
11	Delta Amacuro	21	6	2.0%
12	Anzoátegui	12	8	1.2%
13	Sucre	11	3	1.1%
14	Yaracuy	11	1	1.1%
15	Miranda	8	6	0.8%
16	Lara	8	2	0.8%
17	Carabobo	7	2	0.7%
18	Falcón	7	1	0.7%
19	Aragua	3	0	0.3%
20	Tachira	3	1	0.3%
21	Merida	3	0	0.3%
22	Trujillo	2	2	0.2%
23	Roraima	1	1	0.1%

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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