Vermont’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Northern Vermont stacks its buildings against the northern Greens: Stowe and Waterbury in the mountain valleys, Morrisville and Johnson along the Lamoille River, and dairy and horse farms spread across the hills between them. Summer storms build over Mount Mansfield and the range and break down the valleys first — and many mountain homes here are second homes that stand empty for stretches of the year. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
From Stowe and Waterbury through Morrisville, Hyde Park, and Johnson to Jeffersonville and the Cambridge valley, northern Vermont mixes mountain and second homes with working farms in narrow valleys under high ridges. Storms that form over the range strike the upper slopes and valley high points first, and barns standing in open valley fields are the tallest structures around. A strike to a barn roof can ignite hay and framing; a strike to a chimney in an empty second home can burn undetected.
WB Lightning Rods protects northern Vermont properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the building, whole-farm packages that design every structure into one plan, and grounding engineered for mountain soils and ledge. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Storms build over the northern Greens and roll down the Lamoille and Winooski headwater valleys at full strength. Valley and ridge-top roofs are the first high points they meet.
Northern Vermont’s dairy and horse barns stand in open valley fields — the tallest structures around, holding animals, feed, and tack. A barn fire is the worst-case loss protection is built to prevent.
Many Stowe-area homes stand empty between visits and seasons, with nobody there when a storm crosses the ridge. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery.
One company for the whole property — mountain homes, second homes, farmhouses, barns, and shops, anywhere in northern Vermont.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Stowe custom and second homes and northern Vermont mountain properties — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines that respect the building and the setting.
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, garages, and guest houses — 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 northern Vermont specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on northern 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 mountain soils — gravel, till, and ledge included, with grounding engineered where ledge sits near the surface — so strike energy 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, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A northern Vermont property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, garages, and guest houses, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, barn fans, and shop power all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies road by road. Neighbors on the same valley road who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Vermont statewide, a Stowe home and a farm in the Kingdom are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — mountain homes, barns, and farmhouses protected by our own crew.
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.
Yes — and mountain homes are exactly where protection matters most, because nobody is there to smell smoke or cut power when a storm crosses the ridge. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery so the process doesn’t need you on site.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy or horse barns, pole barns, shops, 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 can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, barn fans, 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.
Ledge needs engineered grounding, not less protection — rods are driven where the soil allows and the ground system is supplemented and sized for the site’s resistance, then verified as part of the installation. WB designs every northern Vermont system for its property’s actual conditions.
Yes. When several homes on the same valley road 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 only takes one organizer to get it started.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Property 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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