SECTION 4: RISK ASSESSMENT
Location
Date
Time
Fatalities
Injuries
Property Damage
Leesville
7/20/2010
1757
0
0
$15,000
Falls
7/20/2010
1830
0
0
$10,000
Apex
7/27/2010
1146
0
0
$5,000
Six Forks
7/29/2010
2120
0
0
$2,000
Holly Springs
7/29/2010
2245
0
0
$300,000
Cary
2/28/2011
1910
0
0
$5,000
Cary
2/28/2011
1910
0
0
$5,000
Cary
7/24/2011
1425
0
0
$15,000
Wyatt
5/9/2012
1545
0
0
$5,000
Morrisville
7/6/2012
1600
0
0
$5,000
Upchurch
7/6/2012
1625
0
0
$5,000
Varina
2/19/2014
500
0
0
$30,000
Macedonia
4/9/2015
1915
1
0
$0
Auburn
7/13/2015
640
0
0
$25,000
Total
3
0
$2,417,000
Source: NCEI
The following are a selection of narrative descriptions recorded in NCEI for lightning events that occurred in Wake County: July 24, 1999 – A 24-year-old male was stepping from a boat to a dock when he was struck by lightning; he never regained consciousness and died the next day. July 13, 2005 – A smoldering tree which had been struck by lightning a few hours earlier fell, killing a firefighter. April 9, 2015 – A 28-year-old male was struck and killed by lightning in the parking lot of a shopping center. Twenty of the 27 incidents recorded by the NCEI included property damage, which was mostly recorded as fire damage ignited by lightning. The highest rate of property damage recorded for a single incident was $1,000,000. Hai l NCEI records 270 separate hail incidents across 140 days between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2017 in Wake County. Of these, two events were reported to have caused property damage and none caused death, injury or crop damage. The largest diameter hail recorded in the County was in Raleigh on March 28, 2005; the average hail size in all storms was a little over one inch in diameter. Table 4.61 – Summary of Hail Occurrences by Jurisdiction
Location
Number of Occurrences Average Hail Diameter
Apex
10
1.038”
Cary
15
.92”
Fuquay-Varina
13
1.13”
Garner
13
1.14”
Holly Springs
8
.92”
Knightdale
7
.96”
Wake County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2019
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