USA insurance company information shows one homeowner's damage claim for every 57 lightning strikes. Data about commercial, government, and industrial lightning-caused losses is not available. The downward Leaders from a thundercloud pulse towards earth seeking out active electrical ground targets. Upward Streamers are launched from some of these objects. We see lightning.
Indirect effects are more probable.
They include capacitive, inductive and magnetic behavior. A diminution of its consequences, together with incremental safety improvements, can be obtained by the use of a holistic or systematic hazard mitigation approach, described below in generic terms. In Franklin's day, lightning rods conducted current away from buildings to earth. Lightning rods, now known as air terminals, are believed to send Streamers upward at varying distances and times according to shape, height and other factors. Different designs of air terminals may be employed according to different protection requirements.