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Originally Posted by djlnc
But, isn't the house with lightning rods effectively 15 or 20 feet higher than the other houses, making it more likely to get struck as lightning will want to take the shortest path?
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All homes are at different heights and lightning rods are typically about 12 inches long for residential installations.
Lightning is unpredictable and we have seen cases where a house next to a very large tree was struck and the tree was not so there is no way to predict what can happen.