At a Glance

Seminole County, Florida, regained the top spot from Harrison County, Mississippi.Seminole had an average 17.3 lightning strikes per third of a square mile last year.Florida had 1.4 million lightning strikes last year.Texas had the most lightning strikes in 2018 with almost 2.5 million.

Florida’s Seminole County has regained the title of the United States' lightning strike champion.

Seminole County had , the Orlando Sentinel reported. Neighboring Orange County, which surrounds Orlando, was in second place with an average of 15.6 strikes per third of a square mile.

For a comparison, Disney's Epcot Theme Park covers a little more than a third of a square mile.

The figures come from the by Vaisala, a company that specializes in detecting lightning and predicting when and where it will strike.

Harrison County, Mississippi, had been the spot with the highest local density of lightning in 2017. Harrison County still has the highest 10-year average of lightning strikes, Vaisala said.

Florida had 14 of the top 15 spots for the counties with the most lightning in 2018.

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The state also had the highest average of negative cloud-to-ground flashes per square mile, with 24. It had the second-highest number of total strikes: 1,385,710.

Texas had the highest flash count with 2,483,805, according to Vaisala. Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska all had just under 1 million flashes for 2018.

The U.S. actually saw nearly 2 million fewer lightning strikes in 2018 compared with the 10-year average. There were 17,804,321 negative cloud-to-ground flashes, the most common cloud-to-ground lightning, last year. The average annual number of strikes from 2009 to 2018 was 19,728,634.

“The likely reason for the reduction is simply that there were fewer big storms,” Ryan Said, a lightning research scientist at Vaisala, said in a news release. “Specifically, there were fewer days with very strong air mass contrasts across the Central Plains and Upper Midwest during the spring and summer of 2018, which contributes to the severe weather season.”

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Florida's 1.4 million strikes last year was a 25 percent increase over 2017, Vaisala's Brooke Pearson told the Sentinel.

Over the past 30 years, the U.S. has averaged , according to NOAA. Only about 10 percent of people struck by lightning are actually killed.

Last year, in the U.S., NOAA also said. Seven of those deaths occurred in Florida.