Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Susquehanna County is the heart of the Endless Mountains — dairy farms spread across high, open ridges from Montrose to Dimock and Springville, in shale country where the barn and the silo are the tallest things on the hill. Summer storms cross that high ground at full strength. We protect the whole farm under one plan: farmhouse, dairy barn, pole buildings, and silos, every building covered.
From the county seat at Montrose through Dimock, Springville, and Brooklyn, Susquehanna County is working dairy country — herds on ridge pastures, hay in big bank barns, and farmhouses that can sit a long way down a township road. East toward Hallstead, Great Bend, and New Milford, farms and country homes spread along the Susquehanna River and up the side valleys, with Forest City and Susquehanna borough anchoring the river towns. Newer custom homes are going up along the river and on the ridge roads, standing just as exposed as the farms around them. The exposure is height and isolation together: a barn standing alone on an Endless Mountains ridge, and help measured in miles when a strike starts a fire. Gas-country development around Dimock and Springville has added shops, pads, and outbuildings across the county — each one another tall structure in open ground.
WB Lightning Rods protects Susquehanna 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, on the same Northern Tier routes we run through the shale country. 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 — many ridge farms around Montrose and Friendsville carry rods that went up generations ago and have never been checked since. We make old systems great again.
The ridges around Montrose, Dimock, and Thompson are some of the highest farm ground in the Northern Tier. Storms strike the high, open ridges first — and the barn on the ridge is the tallest target on it.
Susquehanna County dairy farms hold herds, feed, and a season of hay in timber barns standing alone in open country. Losing the barn is the smallest part of a barn fire; protection is built for the worst case.
Ridge 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.
One company for the whole farm — dairy farms, farmhouses, barns, and pole buildings, anywhere in Susquehanna 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 Endless Mountains — 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 Susquehanna 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 Susquehanna 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 Montrose down through Springville and Dimock and east to Hallstead and New Milford, so a farm outside Montrose 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 — a working bank barn protected by our crew, plus the barns and pole buildings we protect 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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