Central Pennsylvania is farm country cut by ridges and a great river — the Cumberland Valley’s dairy farms, Hershey’s custom homes, and ridge-top houses from Carlisle to State College all stand in the path of summer storms rolling up the Susquehanna. We protect the whole property, every building covered.
The middle of Pennsylvania runs on two landscapes. West of Harrisburg, the Cumberland Valley holds some of the richest farmland in the state — dairy and crop farms around Mechanicsburg, Carlisle, and Dillsburg, where bank barns and silos stand alone in open fields. East and north, it’s Hershey and Hummelstown’s custom homes, riverfront houses along the Susquehanna, and then ridge-and-valley country all the way to State College, Bellefonte, and the Penns Valley farms. Ridge-and-valley storms build over the high ground and break across those farms and ridge-top homes at full strength.
WB Lightning Rods protects central Pennsylvania the way we’ve protected homes and farms since 1950: complete systems built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA — whole-farm packages for the valley farms, low-profile systems for fine homes. 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.
The Cumberland Valley’s dairy and crop farms run big barns full of animals, feed, and equipment. Timber framing and hay storage make a barn strike a worst case — and the barn and silo are the tallest structures for a mile.
Central Pennsylvania’s parallel ridges channel summer storm lines. Homes and farms on the high ground and the open valley floors between them take those storms at full strength.
Riverfront and ridge-top homes along the Susquehanna — from Harrisburg’s East and West Shore suburbs to Hershey — stand above the tree line, chimneys first in line when a storm comes up the river.
One company for the whole property — homes, farms, barns, and trees, anywhere in Harrisburg & central Pennsylvania.
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, slate, tile, and metal roofs — from Hershey-area custom homes to riverfront houses along the Susquehanna.
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, barns, shops, guest houses, 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 central Pennsylvania specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on central Pennsylvania 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 local soils — from Cumberland Valley limestone to the sandstone ridges — 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.
Barns, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A central Pennsylvania property is often more than the house — a barn, a shop, a pole building, a guest house. 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, milking systems, and outbuilding power all ride the same service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street and farm to farm. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a Harrisburg-area home and a farm up the valley are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations by our own crew — farm barns, pole barns, and dairy farms.
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 — WB serves all of Pennsylvania, statewide. Our crews run Harrisburg and its suburbs, the Cumberland Valley, Hershey, Lebanon, and up the Susquehanna to State College on regular routes, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery so distance never slows down getting your estimate.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm and estate 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy or horse barns, pole barns, shops, and silos 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. When several homes on the same street, road, or valley install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It’s the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and it only takes one organizer to get it started.
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.
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