How many lightning strikes hit Georgia yesterday?
17,943 lightning flashes were detected across Georgia on Saturday, August 15, 2026, local time. Activity peaked at 5 PM EDT with 4,187 flashes in a single hour — a quieter-than-normal day for this state.
Counts come from the NOAA GOES East/West Geostationary Lightning Mappers, which detect optical flashes from orbit. They include in-cloud lightning and are not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike tally. A day here is a local calendar day in America/New_York, and totals are aggregated over the Georgia bounding box, so cells near a border can fall either side. No detections in a period is not an all-clear.
Georgia lightning by day, last 7 days
Each row is one completed local calendar day.
| Day | Detected flashes | Peak hour | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, Aug 15 | 17,943 | 5 PM EDT | 17,943 flashes |
| Fri, Aug 14 | 58,157 | 4 PM EDT | 58,157 flashes |
| Thu, Aug 13 | 87,996 | 5 PM EDT | 87,996 flashes |
| Wed, Aug 12 | 82,955 | 3 PM EDT | 82,955 flashes |
| Tue, Aug 11 | 105,289 | 4 PM EDT | 105,289 flashes |
| Mon, Aug 10 | 33,166 | 6 PM EDT | 33,166 flashes |
| Sun, Aug 9 | 22,975 | 3 PM EDT | 22,975 flashes |
Across the last 13 days Georgia recorded 577,563 detected flashes. The busiest day was Tuesday, August 11, 2026 with 105,289.
Questions about Georgia daily lightning counts
How many lightning strikes did Georgia have yesterday?
NOAA GOES East/West GLM detected 17,943 lightning flashes across Georgia on Saturday, August 15, 2026, local time. Activity peaked at 5 PM EDT with 4,187 flashes in that hour. These are satellite-detected optical flashes, not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike count.
What counts as a day on this page?
A local calendar day in Georgia (America/New_York), midnight to midnight — not a UTC day. An evening storm that runs past midnight UTC still counts toward the evening it started.
Is this the same as the number on the Georgia lightning map?
No. The map page counts a rolling 24-hour window that moves with the clock. This page counts closed calendar days, so the totals are answering different questions and will not match.
Are these cloud-to-ground strikes?
No. GLM is an optical instrument on a geostationary satellite and detects total lightning, which includes in-cloud flashes. Counts are flash detections, not confirmed ground strikes, and locations are approximate flash centroids.