Vermont’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
From Burlington and the Lake Champlain shore through Stowe and the Mad River Valley, from Woodstock and the Upper Valley to Manchester and Brattleboro in the south and the Northeast Kingdom’s dairy country, WB Lightning Rods protects Vermont properties statewide — the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950.
Vermont’s summer thunderstorms build over Lake Champlain, roll down the Green Mountain valleys, and fire across the dairy country of the Northeast Kingdom — and they find the same targets everywhere: dairy barns standing alone in open pastures, farmhouses under tall maples and pines, lake homes on exposed Champlain points, and mountain and ski homes on high ground. A strike to a barn roof can ignite hay and framing faster than anyone can respond, and a strike to a chimney can tear masonry and send destructive current through every circuit in the building.
WB Lightning Rods works all over Vermont — the Champlain shore and valley, Stowe and the northern valleys, the Mad River Valley and the capital area, the Upper Valley, the southern counties, and the Kingdom. We protect the whole property: the farmhouse, the barns, the sugarhouse, the shops, and the trees that shade them, every building designed into the plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so getting protected starts with one call.
Vermont’s dairy barns, pole buildings, and silos are the tallest structures in their valleys — holding animals, feed, and a season of work. A barn fire is the worst-case loss, and it’s the one protection is built to prevent.
Storms build over the Greens and break down the Mad River, Winooski, and White River valleys at full strength. Valley and ridge-top roofs are the first high points they meet.
Champlain shore homes stand on open points, and ski and second homes across the mountains sit empty for stretches of the year. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not.
One company for the whole property — homes, farms, barns, trees, and every building in between, anywhere in Vermont.
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 fine architecture and lake living — Shelburne and Charlotte shore homes, Woodstock village homes, and mountain properties statewide.
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 — main house, barns, shops, guest houses, 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 Vermont specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Vermont properties.
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, sized for local soils — from Champlain valley clay to mountain gravel — and where ledge sits near the surface, grounding is engineered for the ledge so strike energy still disperses 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.
Barns, pole barns, equipment shops, sugarhouses, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
WB’s Vermont work follows the state’s own geography. In the west it’s Burlington, the Champlain shore towns, and the valley dairy farms behind them. In the middle it’s Stowe, the Mad River Valley, and Montpelier. Along the eastern river it’s Woodstock and the Upper Valley, and in the south it’s Manchester, Brattleboro, and Bennington. Up in the Kingdom it’s St. Johnsbury, Newport, and some of the hardest-working dairy country in New England.
Wherever your property sits, the approach is the same: the whole property protected under one plan, priced together so multiple buildings cost less per building, and installed by our own crew under the owner’s personal supervision. A dairy barn in the Kingdom and a lake home on Champlain are one call, one company.
Six regions, one crew, one standard of work — pick your part of the state.
Burlington, Shelburne, and Charlotte on the lake, plus the Champlain Valley farm country behind the shore — lake homes and dairy farms in the path of every lake storm.
Stowe, Waterbury, and Morrisville under the Green Mountains — mountain homes, second homes, and farms in the northern valleys.
Waitsfield, Warren, and Montpelier — valley homes and dairy farms between the ranges, in the heart of Vermont farm country.
Woodstock, Quechee, and Norwich on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River — village homes, hilltop properties, and horse and dairy farms.
Manchester, Brattleboro, and Bennington — mountain-valley homes, second homes, and farms across the southern counties.
St. Johnsbury, Newport, and Craftsbury — dairy country and lake country in Vermont’s rural northeast corner.
Real WB installations by our own crew — estate homes, dairy barns, horse farms, and pole barns.
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 Vermont storms the calm way.
Every part of the system works together — rods on the roof, low-profile cables, and deep-driven grounds carry a strike safely into the earth.
Yes — WB serves all of Vermont, statewide. Our crews run the Champlain Valley, the northern and central valleys, the Upper Valley, the southern counties, and the Northeast Kingdom on regular routes, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery so distance never slows down getting your estimate.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm and estate 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.
Yes. When several homes on the same street, road, or shore install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It’s the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and it only takes one organizer to get it started.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy or horse barns, pole barns, shops, sugarhouses, and silos under one plan — we protect all of your buildings, with a lifetime of protection, and pricing the property together costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself — or one that hits utility lines down the road — can send a damaging surge through wiring, 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. A tall maple or pine close to a house 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 — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
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