Lightning Safety: How Much Do You Know? Take Our Quiz!

Think you're weather wise? Test your knowledge now with the Farmers' Almanac Lightning Quiz.

by Farmers' Almanac Staff Updated: January 17, 2024

Lightning Safety Awareness Week is June 20-26, 2021. Test your knowledge!

<section><h2><p>Test Your Lightning Knowledge!</p></h2><p><p>Think you’re weather wise? Test your knowledge now with Farmers’ Almanac’s Lightning Quiz!</p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong>How long can a single lightning bolt be?</strong></h2></h2></section><section><h3><h2><strong>How many people, on average, are killed by lightning each year in the United States?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>True or False? Wearing rubber shoes can protect you from being struck by lightning.</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>True or False? A lightning strike victim is safe to touch.</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>What is the statistical likelihood that an average American will be struck by lightning during their lifetime?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>True or false? Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>True or false? Wearing metal jewelry attracts lightning.</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>According to the NWS, which of the following is an element of the “30-30 rule” of lightning safety?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>If you are caught outdoors during a lightning storm, the best thing to do is:</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>True or false? A car is the safest place to be in a thunderstorm.</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>The best piece of advice regarding lightning and thunderstorms is:</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h2><h2><strong>Less than 60% Right – Try Again!</strong></h2></h2></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Barely Passed This One</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Not Bad – Got Most Right!</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Perfect Score!</strong></h2></h3></section>

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Trent von Neuman

4 years ago

10/10 would watch a cow fall over like wood again

JXS

5 years ago

Love the rain, thunder and lightning storms. As an uniformed kid, I used to sit on my grandmothers screened porch in the rocking chair and watched the lightning light up the sky.. I liked feeling the mist from the rain coming thru the screen on my face

Saw a cow hit by lightning when I was a kid. It fell over like it was made of wood.

LindaThomas

I was about 9yrs. old we lived one door from the Ohio Canal and while I was fishing it started to storm I started running home lighting hit the telephone I looked up and saw sparks the next thing I remembered was being on my porch. The second time I at my Grandparents house which was in the mountains of N.C. it was a beautiful sunny day big white clouds a bolt of lightning went between my cousin going then through the wiring into the kitchen lightbulb a loud boom and continued to bring the hosing going to my Grandpa’s springhouse. True story what makes lighting do that when there isn’t a storm without any warning?

rhonda

I totally flunked

Mary Buttry

6 years ago

I’m glad I took this quiz, as 7 out of ten is more than I thought I’d get correct!

Lara Lea Newsom

I need to brush up on my facts lol.

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