The National Lightning Safety Council (NLSC) announced this week that 13 people were killed by lightning in 2023, the second-lowest number since 2001 and well under the 10-year average of 22. The first national lightning safety awareness campaign was initiated by the National Weather Service and NLSC in 2001. On the decline since then, the lowest fatality count was 2021, when only 11 lightning-related deaths were recorded. Last year, a study on lightning fatalities by John S. Jensenius, Jr., Lig