Roof House Lightning

The view of the collapsed roof through the loft hatch one firefighter said of all the lightning strikes he s known.

Roof house lightning.

Location lightning tends to strike the highest point in any terrain but lightning can also be capricious random arbitrary and unpredictable. A bolt of lightning has blown a hole in the roof of a house in knutsford. A lightning strike had hit a house in the road and blown a hole in the roof. Metal roofing materials are non combustible so if a metal roof does get struck by lightning it is less likely to result in a fire than some other types of roofing materials such as cedar shakes.

The call was to a house fire which we believe started when the roof was struck by lightning. Fire crews from ellesmere port and powey lane fire stations were called to lumley road at around 6 45pm yesterday monday august 10. Metal roofs do not attract lightning. Surprisingly one of the main fears people hold about metal roofs is without merit.

This is because when lightning strikes a home or building it doesn t matter if the materials it hits can conduct electricity or not. Remaining roof tiles on the house became unsafe and fire crews from knutsford and lymm attended on tuesday morning to assess the situation. The strike happened overnight between monday august 10 and tuesday august 11 in bexton road. If the roof is covered with combustible materials such as wood shakes or extremely flammable asphalt shingles they are easily ignited as the lightning channels through on its way to the ground via the house s pipes and electrical system.

Excellent work from crews to get this sorted so quickly no injuries to report either. Thunderstorms in chester damaged the roof of a house and caused a number of power sockets in the same road to blow out. Metal roofs and lighting the misconception that metal roofs attract lightning is probably because metal itself is known as a good conductor of electricity and people therefore assume that a metal roof must attract lightning. The incident also caused a number of sockets to blow at three.

This includes water damage which is normally triggered by lightning that has struck a roof and left behind an opening for water.