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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
How many houses have experienced lightning damage and what was the cost of the damage in the last 10 years in The Villages?
What percentage of houses in The Villages have lightning protection systems?
You can hype lightning protection systems all you want, but without this information, you cannot have an serious or productive discussion about the need for a lightning protection system.
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It sounds like you are struggling with a low probability event such as a lightning strike to your home living here in the Lightning Capital of the US. If you live in Sumter County we experience 47.5 cloud-to-ground strikes per square mile per year that is 10th highest county in the nation, Fortunately, most do not cause any significant damage.
Human nature is to defer action on the grounds that there is insufficient information to base a decision. There was no statistical data on air travel by blimps until 1937 when the Hindenburg crashed and after that no one wanted to travel by that mode. Perfect information for a lightning strike to your home is not available. Each homeowner needs to consider their own threshold of risk. If it is high you do nothing and don't worry about it. If you have a low threshold of risk your provide layers of lightning protection including a lightning protection system as others have said on this thread. for peace of mind.