Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Bradford County is one of Pennsylvania’s great dairy counties — farms spread across the hills above the Susquehanna, in shale country where the barn and the silo are the tallest things in the valley. Summer storms roll off the New York line and strike that high, open ground first. We protect the whole farm under one plan: farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, and silos, every building covered.
From Towanda and Sayre down the river to Wyalusing, and west through Troy and Canton, Bradford County farms work the hill country of the Northern Tier — dairy herds on ridge pastures, hay in big bank barns, equipment in pole buildings, and farmhouses that can sit a long way from the nearest fire hall. Newer custom homes are going up along the riverbanks and the ridge roads, too — waterfront homes and ridge homes standing just as exposed as the farms around them. The exposure here is height, isolation, and distance together: a barn standing alone on a ridge above the river valley, storms building over the Endless Mountains, and help measured in miles when a strike starts a fire. Gas-country development has added shops, pads, and outbuildings across the county, each one another tall structure standing in open ground.
WB Lightning Rods protects Bradford County farms the way we’ve protected farms since 1950 — whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, shops, and silos into one plan, priced together. The work is the same as on our Northern Tier routes across the shale country: systems built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA, installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner. We also inspect and repair older systems across the county — many hill farms carry rods that went up generations ago and have never been checked since. We make old systems great again.
Bradford County’s dairy farms hold herds, feed, and a season of hay in timber barns that stand alone in open hill country. Losing the barn is the smallest part of a barn fire — protection is built for the worst case.
Hill farms can sit miles from the nearest fire hall, down roads that slow any response. A fire that starts with one strike gives nobody time to spare — prevention is the whole point.
Ridge farms across the shale country stand on thin, rocky soils. Grounding design decides whether a system truly works, and deep-driven rods at every structure are how we build.
One company for the whole farm — dairy farms, farmhouses, barns, and pole buildings, anywhere in Bradford County and across Pennsylvania statewide.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems designed around the farmhouses and country homes of the Northern Tier — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
We protect all of your buildings — farmhouse, dairy barns, shops, garages, silos, and outbuildings — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street, road, or lake shore.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials made in the USA — and designed for Bradford County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along farmhouse chimneys, barn ridgelines, silos, and cupolas — the high points lightning seeks first on open ridge ground.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at each structure, worked into the county’s shale and ridge soils so strike energy disperses quickly and safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Dairy barns, pole buildings, equipment shops, run-in sheds, garages, and silos incorporated into the farm plan — no building left exposed.
A Bradford County farm is rarely one building, and it should not be protected one building at a time. Our multi-building farm packages price the whole property as one design — farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less per building and leaves no gap between structures. Milking equipment, well pumps, and barn lighting all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same crews run our Northern Tier routes from the Susquehanna valley up into the shale country, so a farm outside Towanda and a second property anywhere else in Pennsylvania are one call, one company. Neighbors along the same ridge road who install together share one trip and one setup. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so a farm at the end of a long hill road is never a slow estimate.
Real WB installations — our truck on a working dairy farm, and the barns and pole buildings our crew protects across farm country.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch Pennsylvania storms the calm way.
A dairy barn holds the herd, the feed, the milking equipment, and a season of hay in one timber-framed building — and it stands alone on open ridge ground as the tallest structure around. Add the distance to the nearest fire hall, and a single strike is a worst case. Protection is built for exactly that.
Maybe — but many older systems have broken cables, corroded connections, or grounding that no longer does its job, and nobody knows until a storm tests them. We inspect what’s there, repair what’s worn, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a fence line, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, milking equipment, well pumps, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the rods on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes — they’re part of the farm plan. Pole buildings and equipment shops hold machinery worth as much as the barn, and they stand just as exposed. Whole-farm packages cover them with the farmhouse and barns under one design.
Yes. A tall tree close to the farmhouse or barn can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We install lightning protection for trees themselves and factor nearby trees into every farm design.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your property — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
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