Which states had the most lightning yesterday?

On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Texas led returned state rows with 84,163 detected optical flashes.

Each row is that state’s local midnight-to-midnight calendar day. NOAA GOES East/West GLM reports optical total-lightning flash counts, not confirmed ground impacts. State bounding boxes are rectangular and can overlap, so rows cannot form a unique national total; a missing row is not proof of zero.

Returned state rows

RankStateDetected optical flashesRelative activity
1Texas yesterday84,163
2Oklahoma10,684
3Florida yesterday8,136
4New Mexico yesterday4,197
5Kansas3,831
6Arizona yesterday978
7Nebraska713
8Colorado yesterday284
9Iowa265
10Hawaii72
11Georgia yesterday27
12South Carolina14
13Alabama12
14Missouri5
15Alaska2
16West Virginia2
17Michigan2
18Wisconsin2
19New Hampshire1
20Utah1
21California1
22Indiana1
23Virginia1
24Minnesota1
25Kentucky1
26Illinois1
27Washington yesterday1
28Idaho yesterday1
29Ohio1
30Maine1

Closed-day pages by state

These states keep their own yesterday page, whether or not they returned a row above.

What about right now?

These are closed local-day rows, not a live national tracker. Use the last-24-hour lightning map for recent activity, a state or city map for local context, and closest recent flash for distance context.

Counts are based on NOAA GOES East/West GLM observations. Read the methodology for source boundaries, cadence, and map limits.

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