Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie shore runs from the Presque Isle peninsula through Fairview and Lake City to the grape country at North East — and every home on it faces weather that builds over thirty miles of open water. Lake storms arrive at full strength. We protect the whole property: house, garage, boathouse, and outbuildings, every building covered.
Lake Erie makes its own weather, and the Pennsylvania shore takes it first. Summer storm lines build over the open lake and come ashore from Presque Isle to North East with nothing to break them — the bayfront and lakefront homes of Erie and Millcreek, the cottages along the shore in Fairview, Girard, and Lake City, and the farm homes of the grape belt all stand in the front row. Add lake-effect seasons that keep the shore in unsettled weather half the year, and Erie County properties see more storm days than almost anywhere in the state.
WB Lightning Rods protects lakefront properties the way we’ve protected Pennsylvania homes since 1950: complete systems built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA, designed for the property — house, garage, boathouse, and outbuildings in one plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so getting protected starts with one call.
Storms cross miles of open lake and hit the shoreline undiminished. A lakefront home stands between the water and everything inland — it is, by position, the first structure the weather reaches.
Many shore properties are second homes and cottages that sit empty for long stretches of storm season. A protection system works whether anyone is home or not — it never needs someone there when the storm arrives.
The shore is lined with mature trees and bluff-top homes above the beaches. Trees over the roofline and houses on the bluff are the high points lightning seeks first along the water.
One company for the whole property — lakefront homes, cottages, garages, and boathouses, anywhere along Erie & the Lake Erie shore.
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 fine architecture — stone, slate, and standing-seam metal roofs — with clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines.
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 — main house, cottage, garage, boathouse, 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 the Erie Lakefront specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, boathouse roofs, and the shoreline trees that stand over them — the high points lightning seeks first on lakefront properties.
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, sized for the sandy lakeshore and shale soils along the lake, so strike energy disperses 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.
Cottages, garages, boathouses, and sheds incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A shore property is often more than the house — a cottage, a garage, a boathouse down the bank, a barn back on the farm ground behind the shore. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design, all of it protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, dock power, lifts, and outbuilding circuits all ride the same service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies shore road by shore road. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, an Erie lake house and a primary home anywhere in the state are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — homes, carriage houses, and lake-area properties protected by our own crew.
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.
Yes. Storms build over open water and reach the shore at full strength, and shore homes are the first structures in their path — often with tall trees or a bluff position making them the highest point on the lot. A system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Multi-building packages price the properties 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages cover the main house, barns, pole barns, shops, and outbuildings under one plan — we protect all of your buildings, with a lifetime of protection, and pricing the property together costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself — or one that hits utility lines down the road — can send a damaging surge through wiring, 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. A tall tree close to a house 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 — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
Easily. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your property, so the estimate doesn’t wait on a site visit, and we serve the whole shore — Erie, Millcreek, Fairview, Girard, Lake City, and North East — on regular routes, plus all of Pennsylvania statewide.
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