Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
York County is rolling farm country between the Susquehanna and the Maryland line — dairy farms and horse farms spread across open ridges, historic homes in one of America’s oldest inland towns, and custom homes on the hilltops around them. Summer storms cross that open country with nothing to slow them down. We protect the whole property under one plan: farmhouse, barns, pole buildings, and outbuildings, every building covered.
York County farms work some of the richest soil in the Mid-Atlantic — dairy herds, poultry, corn, and soybeans from Hanover and Spring Grove through Shrewsbury, New Freedom, and Glen Rock, with the horse country around Hanover known far beyond the county for its breeding farms. The buildings stand big and alone: bank barns and pole buildings on open ridge ground, silos taller than anything around them. York itself is a historic town — colonial-era buildings and 19th-century homes with steep roofs and tall chimneys — and around it, custom homes keep going up on the same exposed hilltops. Humid summer storms boil up over that open country, and the tallest structure on the ridge is where they land.
WB Lightning Rods protects York County the way we’ve protected farms and homes since 1950 — whole-property packages that design the farmhouse, dairy barn, horse barn, pole buildings, shops, and silos into one plan, priced together. For historic homes in York and out toward Gettysburg we design low-profile systems that respect the architecture, with clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines. 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, and our crews serve Adams County and the Gettysburg area on the same routes.
A silo or bank barn standing in open fields is the highest point for hundreds of yards in every direction. Lightning doesn’t have to aim — the tallest structure is simply where it lands.
Breeding and boarding farms hold valuable horses, hay, and tack in big timber and pole barns. A barn fire is the loss horse people plan hardest against — and the one a protection system is built to prevent.
From colonial-era York to the custom homes on the hilltops around it, the county’s houses share one exposure: height above open ground, with storms arriving at full strength.
One company for the whole property — dairy farms, horse farms, custom homes, and historic homes, anywhere around York 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 stone, brick, slate, and standing-seam metal roofs on York County custom and historic homes — 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 — farmhouse, dairy barns, horse barns, 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 York County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along farmhouse chimneys, barn ridgelines, silos, cupolas, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first across open farm country.
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, designed for the county’s clay and limestone 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, horse barns, pole buildings, shops, run-in sheds, garages, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A York 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, horse barns, pole buildings, shops, and silos, 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.
West of York, our crews cover Adams County on the same trips — Gettysburg-area farms, orchard country around Biglerville and Arendtsville, and historic homes in the borough itself. Neighbors along the same country road who install together share one trip and one setup, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a York County farm and a second property anywhere else 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 — barns and farm buildings protected by our own crew, and rods fitted to the roofs of older Pennsylvania homes.
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.
The buildings stand alone on open ridge ground — the barn and silo are the tallest structures for a mile — and they hold the herd, the horses, the feed, and a season of crops. Timber framing and hay storage make a barn a worst case once a strike lands, and rural response times only raise the stakes.
Very little, when it’s designed properly. We use low-profile terminals and route heavy conductor cables cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, following the architecture instead of fighting it. Most visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
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 terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes — 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.
Yes. Adams County is on our regular York County routes — farms, orchard properties, and historic homes around Gettysburg, Biglerville, and New Oxford are served on the same trips, under the same whole-property approach.
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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