Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most awe-inspiring phenomena, illuminating the skies with its fearsome forks.

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

A single lightning flash streaked across 515 miles from east Texas to Kansas City, Mo., setting a new record.

By the time the August Complex fire was declared contained by Cal Fire in mid-November, it had burned 1,032,648 acres in ...

An intense thunderstorm had first responders scrambling Friday afternoon, with two house fires possibly caused by lightning.

Of the 22 wildfires sparked by recent storms, 20 have been contained or extinguished, according to the Forest Service.

A radio frequency sensor they developed observed more than 76,000 TIPPs, matching them to lightning detected from the ground aboard a satellite in geostationary orbit. This is the circular path 22,236 ...