Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Somerset County is the roof of Pennsylvania — Mount Davis, the highest point in the state, dairy farms across the high valleys around Somerset, Berlin, and Meyersdale, and mountain homes around Seven Springs and Hidden Valley. Storms build along the Laurel Ridge and strike this high ground first. We protect the whole property under one plan: farmhouse, barns, pole buildings, and mountain homes, every building covered.
Elevation is the story in Somerset County. The farms around Somerset, Berlin, Friedens, and Salisbury work some of the highest farm ground in Pennsylvania — dairy country where barns and silos stand alone in open fields a half-mile up in the sky. The resort ridges add a second kind of exposure: mountain homes and ski-area houses around Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and Jennerstown, many of them second homes that sit empty between weekends, standing on ridge shoulders above the tree line. Windber, Boswell, and the valley towns add historic homes, custom homes, and church steeples to the mix. Summer storms pile up along the Laurel Ridge and break over this high country with some of the most intense lightning in the state — and a strike far up a mountain road is a long way from help.
WB Lightning Rods protects Somerset County properties the way we’ve protected farms and homes since 1950 — complete systems designed building by building, then priced as one property plan, on the same Laurel Highlands routes as our Ligonier work across the ridge. Every system is 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 — we make old systems great again.
Somerset County holds the highest ground in the state. Ridge-top farms and mountain homes meet every storm first — height and isolation together are exactly the profile a protection system is built for.
The county’s dairy farms hold herds, feed, and hay in barns standing alone in high open fields. A strike to a barn roof, far from the nearest fire hall, is a worst case that distance makes worse.
Mountain homes around the ski areas are unoccupied much of the week. A grounded system is protection that’s on duty every storm, all season, whether you’re there or not.
One company for the whole property — dairy farms, mountain homes, farmhouses, and historic homes, anywhere in Somerset 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 mountain homes of Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, and the Laurel Highlands — stone, log, and standing-seam metal roofs, grounded for rocky ridge soils.
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, mountain homes, shops, garages, 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 Somerset County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along farmhouse chimneys, barn ridgelines, silos, and the roof peaks of mountain homes — the high points lightning seeks first in the Highlands.
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 rocky ridge soils and valley ground 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, shops, run-in sheds, garages, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Somerset County property is rarely one building, and it should not be protected one building at a time. Our packages price the whole property as one design — farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, shops, and garages, all protected — which costs less per building and leaves no gap between structures. Well pumps, milking equipment, and barn lighting all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
Neighbors along the same mountain road who install together share one trip and one setup, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a Berlin farm and a mountain home at Seven Springs are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so mountain distance never slows down getting an estimate.
Real WB installations — a roof peak and rod above a mountain valley, plus the barns and farm buildings our crew protects across the high 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.
Yes. Storms build along the ridges and strike the highest, most exposed structures first — ridge-shoulder homes, hilltop farmhouses, and barns standing alone in pasture. Somerset County’s elevation puts more of its buildings in that profile than anywhere else in Pennsylvania.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building farm packages cover the farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, shops, and silos under one plan, priced together so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
It makes the most sense there. A strike-started fire in an empty house can burn long before anyone sees it, especially up a mountain road. A properly grounded system doesn’t need anyone home — it’s working every storm, all season.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a fence line, or 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.
We do — inspections and repairs are core work for us. We check terminals, cables, connections, and grounding, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Multi-building packages price 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.
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