AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 200 individuals have been struck and killed by lighting in the United States over the previous 10 years.
A California girl grew to become the first particular person in the nation killed by lightning this year.
Antonia Mendoza Chavez, 52, was strolling her two canines in Pico Rivera, California, on Wednesday when she was struck and killed, according to KXAN sister station KTLA.
California has reported 9 lightning fatalities since 2006, however a number of states have reported extra.
Florida has reported the most lightning deaths, with 80 since 2006. Texas is second, with 37 deaths in the identical time interval.
Colorado, Alabama and North Carolina spherical out the prime 5, every with no less than 20 lightning fatalities.
When adjusted for inhabitants, Wyoming has reported the most: 5.2 deaths for each 1 million residents. Montana and Colorado have each reported greater than 4 deaths for each 1 million residents.
Since 2006, the quantity of males killed by lightning is virtually 4 occasions the quantity of girls killed.
In 2006, 48 individuals had been killed nationwide. Since then, the annual complete has been falling. Last year, 11 individuals had been killed throughout the nation.
Wednesday’s death is the newest in the calendar year that the first death occurred. According to a 10-year common from the National Lightning Safety Council, April 7 is sometimes when the nation’s first lightning death is reported.
Lightning deaths are way more frequent in the summer season months than the relaxation of the year. Since 2006, a few third of all deaths occurred in July, 22% had been in June and 17% in August.
According to the National Lightning Safety Council, your odds of being struck by lightning in any given year is 1 in 1,443,000.
