How many lightning strikes hit Florida yesterday?
32,385 lightning flashes were detected across Florida on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, local time. Activity peaked at 5 PM EDT with 8,024 flashes in a single hour — a quieter-than-normal day for this state.
Counts come from the NOAA GOES East/West Geostationary Lightning Mappers, which detect optical flashes from orbit. They include in-cloud lightning and are not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike tally. A day here is a local calendar day in America/New_York, and totals are aggregated over the Florida bounding box, so cells near a border can fall either side. No detections in a period is not an all-clear.
Florida lightning by day, last 7 days
Each row is one completed local calendar day.
| Day | Detected flashes | Peak hour | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Sep 9 | 32,385 | 5 PM EDT | 32,385 flashes |
| Tue, Sep 8 | 26,236 | 5 PM EDT | 26,236 flashes |
| Mon, Sep 7 | 60,493 | 3 PM EDT | 60,493 flashes |
| Sun, Sep 6 | 60,076 | 4 PM EDT | 60,076 flashes |
| Sat, Sep 5 | 50,101 | 5 PM EDT | 50,101 flashes |
| Fri, Sep 4 | 18,999 | 2 PM EDT | 18,999 flashes |
| Thu, Sep 3 | 48,732 | 4 PM EDT | 48,732 flashes |
Across the last 30 days Florida recorded 1,601,120 detected flashes. The busiest day was Wednesday, August 19, 2026 with 158,659.
Questions about Florida daily lightning counts
How many lightning strikes did Florida have yesterday?
NOAA GOES East/West GLM detected 32,385 lightning flashes across Florida on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, local time. Activity peaked at 5 PM EDT with 8,024 flashes in that hour. These are satellite-detected optical flashes, not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike count.
What counts as a day on this page?
A local calendar day in Florida (America/New_York), midnight to midnight — not a UTC day. An evening storm that runs past midnight UTC still counts toward the evening it started.
Is this the same as the number on the Florida lightning map?
No. The map page counts a rolling 24-hour window that moves with the clock. This page counts closed calendar days, so the totals are answering different questions and will not match.
Are these cloud-to-ground strikes?
No. GLM is an optical instrument on a geostationary satellite and detects total lightning, which includes in-cloud flashes. Counts are flash detections, not confirmed ground strikes, and locations are approximate flash centroids.