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Lightning flashes per square kilometer per year (flashes/km²/year)

A global map shows lightning flashes per square kilometer per year (flashes per square kilometer per year).

The map illustrates global lightning frequency. Areas with less than 0.1 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in light green and include most ocean regions, northern Canada, the Sahara Desert, and parts of western and northern Europe. Areas with 0.1 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in light yellow and are scattered along parts of oceanic regions and coastal regions. Regions with 0.2 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in light purple and include parts of oceanic regions, coastal regions in the north of Canada and Russia. Areas with 0.4 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in red and are scattered along the Atlantic ocean, coastal regions on the north of Russia, Indian Ocean, and Pacific ocean. Areas with 0.6 flashes per square kilometer per year to 1 flash per square kilometer per year are shaded in blue to light green, covering northern Canada, the contiguous United States (excluding the Southeast), parts of South America, much of northern region of Europe, most of Africa south of the Sahara, and most of South, East, and Southeast Asia, including south of Australia. Areas experiencing 2 to 10 flashes per square kilometer per year, indicated by pink to blue shades, include the Southeastern United States, parts of Central and South America, and large areas in Africa, South, East, and Southeast Asia. High lightning frequency regions (20 to 50 flashes per square kilometer per year) are highlighted in dark pink to dark red, located in Southeastern United States, Colombia in South America, Central Africa (notably the Democratic Republic of Congo), and Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

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	Lightning Frequency	<0.1 flashes/km²/year	0.1 flashes/km²/year	0.2 flashes/km²/year	0.4 flashes/km²/year	0.6 flashes/km²/year	0.8 flashes/km²/year	1 flash/km²/year	2 flashes/km²/year	4 flashes/km²/year	6 flashes/km²/year	8 flashes/km²/year	10 flashes/km²/year	20 flashes/km²/year	30 flashes/km²/year	BP Amoco Cherry Point Refinery	BP Texas City Refinery	BP Toledo Refinery	BP West Coast Products Refinery	BP Whiting Refinery	Chalmette Refining LLC Refinery	Chevron El Segundo Refinery	Citgo Corpus Christi Refinery	Citgo Petroleum Corp Lake Charles Refinery	Coffeyville Resources Refinery	ConocoPhillips Alliance (Belle Chasse) Oil Refinery LA USA	ConocoPhillips Borger Refinery	ConocoPhillips Linden Refinery	ConocoPhillips Ponca City Refinery	ConocoPhillips Sweeny Refinery	ConocoPhillips Westlake Refinery	ConocoPhillips Wilmington Refinery	ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery	Crown Central Petroleum Corp Refinery	Deer Park Refining LTD Ptnrshp Refinery	ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery USA	ExxonMobil Beaumont Refinery	ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery	ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery	Flint Hills Resources LP Refinery	Flint Hills Resources LP Saint Paul Refinery	Flint Hills Resources North Pole Refinery	Frontier Refining and Marketing Inc El Dorado Refinery	Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery	Imperial Oil Sarnia Refinery	Imperial Oil Strathcona Refinery	Irving Oil Limited Refinery	Lyondell Citgo Refining Houston Refinery	Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Catlettsburg Refinery	Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Garyville Refinery	Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Robinson Refinery	Motiva Enterprises LLC Convent Refinery	Motiva Enterprises LLC Norco Refinery	Motiva Enterprises LLC Port Arthur Refinery	Murphy Oil U.S.A. Inc Meraux Refinery	North Atlantic Refining Come by Chance Refinery	PBF Paulsboro Refinery NJ USA	PDV Midwest Refining LLC Lemont Refinery	Petro Canada Edmonton Refinery	Petro Canada Montreal Refinery	Premcor Refining Group Inc Lima Refinery	Premcor Refining Group Inc Memphis Refinery	Premcor Refining Group Inc Port Arthur Refinery	Premcore Refining Group Inc Delaware Refinery	Shell Anacortes Refinery	Shell Montreal East Refinery	Shell Oil Martinez Refinery	Shell Scotford Refinery	Sunoco Philadelphia Refinery	Sunoco Toledo Refinery	Tesoro Golden Eagle Martinez Refinery	Total Petrochemicals Inc Port Arthur Refinery	Ultramar(Valero) Jean-Gaulin Refinery	Valero Energy Corp Sunray Refinery	Valero Refining Co Corpus Christi West Refinery	Valero Refining Co Texas City Refinery	Valero Refining Corpus Christi East Plant	Valero Refining Port Arthur Refinery	Valero Saint Charles Oil Refinery LA USA	Valero Wilmington Refinery	Western Refining Co El Paso Refinery	Bad Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant SC USA	Bath County Pumped Storage Hydroelecric Power Plant VA USA	Beauharnois Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Bersimis-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Blenheim Gilboa Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant NY USA	Bonneville Hydro Power Plant OR USA	Boundary Dam Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Castaic Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant CA USA	Chief Joseph Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	G M Shrum (W.A.C. Bennett) Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Glen Canyon Dam Hydro Power Plant AZ USA	Grand Coulee Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Helms Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant CA USA	Hoover Dam Hydro Power Plant AZ/NV USA	John Day Hydro Power Plant OR USA	Kettle Rapids Hydroelectric generating Station Canada	La Grande-1 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	La Grande-2-A Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	La grande-3 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	La grande-4 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Limestone Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Long Spruce Hydroelectric Geneerating Station Canada	Ludington Hydro Power Plant MI USA	Manic-2 (Jean-Lesage) Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Manic-3 (Rene-Levesque) Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Manic-5 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Manic-5-PA Hydroelectric generating Station Canada	Mica Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Muddy Run Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant PA USA	Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant MA USA	Outardes-3 Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	R.H. Saunders Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant TN USA	Revelstoke Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada	Robert Moses Niagara Hydro Power Plant NY USA	Robert-Bourassa Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Hydro Power Plant GA USA	Rocky Reach Hydro Power Plant WA USA	Sir Adam Beck II Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada	The Dalles Hydro Power Plant OR USA	Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Plant Kyrgyzstan	Wanapum Hydro Power Plant WA USA
Utah									22.2%	65.3%	0.130%
Yukon		2.57%	1.17%	39.3%	42.1%	0.676%	0.532%	2.01%
Northwest Territories	10.4%	11.3%	1.93%	1.61%	13.9%	14.4%	4.36%	8.69%
District of Columbia													100%
Florida													0.168%	52.7%	47.1%
Idaho								8.51%	90.0%
New Hampshire									77.0%	23.0%
Rhode Island									100%
Vermont									4.97%	95.0%
Wyoming									48.7%	16.7%	16.6%	10.4%	7.61%
Nunavut	41.3%	36.7%	7.71%	1.80%	1.53%	0.139%
Montana								1.84%	16.7%	6.56%	12.0%	2.35%
Maine								5.45%	71.9%
North Dakota									5.40%	24.2%	48.6%	17.6%
Nova Scotia				8.11%	10.6%	36.1%	17.3%	27.8%
Prince Edward Island					2.52%	8.96%	20.3%	68.2%
Saskatchewan						0.267%	0.717%	31.5%	16.7%	3.54%
Mississippi													53.6%	46.4%
West Virginia												90.8%	9.25%
Nebraska												2.93%	89.3%	7.74%
Missouri													97.2%	2.76%
Hawaii		0.113%	0.444%	32.9%	60.0%
North Carolina													100%
Alabama													41.8%	58.2%
New Mexico											7.94%	33.3%	53.7%
Wisconsin									0.368%	53.9%	28.7%	12.9%	3.74%
Colorado									3.18%	32.7%	15.2%	10.5%	30.1%	8.34%
Nevada							1.83%	39.4%	47.0%	11.8%
Maryland										2.23%	17.7%	58.3%	21.7%
Arkansas													15.7%	84.3%
South Dakota											2.09%	52.0%	45.9%
Iowa										5.30%	6.65%	14.4%	73.6%
Alaska	6.63%	1.78%	25.5%	0.226%	5.17%																																					1
Kentucky													100%																																				1
Delaware									1.09%	21.6%	74.1%	3.24%																																																				1
Texas											1.17%	8.70%	65.9%	24.2%			1						1				1			1				1	1	1	1			1								1						1									1									1		1	1	1	1	1			1
Louisiana														100%							1			1		1					1																			1		1	1		1																								1
New Brunswick							0.276%	0.234%	58.0%																																						1
Kansas													96.1%	3.88%											1																		1
New Jersey										9.73%	90.3%																	1																													1
Alberta								22.8%	73.1%	3.13%																																				1													1									1
Oklahoma													64.4%	35.6%															1
Ohio												23.4%	76.6%					1																																											1									1
Indiana													100%							1
Minnesota									13.4%	3.05%	20.4%	21.8%	9.11%																												1
Illinois												1.50%	98.5%																				1					1													1							1
Arizona									1.13%	23.6%	20.0%	37.0%	18.2%																																																																																1			1
Washington			1.04%	10.6%	19.8%	20.2%	12.1%	35.6%	0.648%							1																																																	1																							1		1				1			1																							1				1
Virginia											0.585%	33.4%	66.0%																																																																						1
Oregon			0.565%	3.81%	5.52%	5.86%	3.52%	49.6%	23.8%																																																																														1																																			1
British Columbia		1.64%	6.95%	12.6%	20.1%	4.57%	5.28%	0.164%	6.19%																																																																																			1																		1						1
Newfoundland and Labrador		5.05%	7.84%	8.94%	30.5%	12.3%	3.57%	0.308%																																																1																																			1
South Carolina													85.1%	14.9%																																																																				1
Michigan									1.83%	31.7%	16.4%	14.6%	8.66%																																																																																												1
Connecticut									77.5%	20.8%	1.09%																																																																																																																1
Pennsylvania										7.74%	34.9%	57.3%																																																									1																																										1
Massachusetts								2.27%	79.0%	18.5%																																																																																																						1
Georgia													48.4%	51.6%																																																																																																									1
New York									16.1%	65.1%	18.0%	0.137%																																																																										1																															1				1
Québec		11.0%	4.90%	11.5%	3.83%	3.39%	3.67%	19.7%	17.8%	0.183%																																																		1						1							1											1	1														1	1	1	1				1	1	1	1				1					1
Manitoba					2.65%	4.40%	2.91%	25.0%	48.7%	10.4%																																																																																								1					1	1
Tennessee													100%																																																	1																																																					1
Ontario						2.58%	3.28%	0.872%	19.2%	2.31%	2.14%	0.326%	0.285%																															1	1																																																																					1
California			2.29%	10.6%	16.3%	5.69%	2.96%	35.4%	15.6%	1.52%									1			1										1							1																												1				1									1									1						1

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