The fatalities occurred in nine states: Florida had four, Texas had two, and the rest happened in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Alabama and Kentucky.
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s Crimes in India Report, 2022 shows that of the 8,060 deaths caused by forces of nature, 2,887 deaths were due to lightning–which accounts for 35.8 per cent of the deaths.