Georgia’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Augusta is a city of pines and history: Summerville’s historic homes on the hill, the growing suburbs of Evans, Martinez, and Grovetown, and farms running out through Harlem and Appling along the Savannah River. Tall pines stand over rooftops everywhere, and summer thunderstorms rolling off the Piedmont find the tallest chimney and the tallest pine first. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
From Summerville and Forest Hills through Evans, Martinez, and Grovetown to Harlem, Appling, and the river country beyond, the Augusta area mixes historic homes, fast-growing suburbs, and working farms. The exposure is doubled: tall pines stand above most lots — and pines are among the trees lightning finds first — while barns, sheds, and silos outside town stand alone in open fields. Storms roll down the Savannah River valley and across the Piedmont at full strength all summer, and a strike to a chimney or barn roof can tear masonry, ignite framing or hay, and send destructive current through every circuit in the house.
WB Lightning Rods protects Augusta-area properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems for historic homes that respect the architecture, tree protection for the pines that matter, and whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, barns, shops, and silos into one plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA.
Augusta’s signature pines tower over historic homes and new subdivisions alike, and pines are among the trees lightning finds first. Trees and rooflines share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
Summerville’s historic homes need protection that respects the architecture. Low-profile terminals and clean cable runs do the job without changing how a historic house looks.
Out through Harlem and Appling, barns and silos stand in open river-country fields — the tallest structures for a mile, holding animals, feed, and equipment.
One company for the whole property — historic homes, suburban homes, farms, and barns, anywhere in the Augusta area.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Discreet, low-profile systems for Augusta’s historic homes and Evans and Martinez custom homes — clean runs that respect the architecture.
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 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 the Augusta area specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first on Augusta-area 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 — river-valley loam to Piedmont clay — 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 garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
An Augusta-area property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, garages, and outbuildings, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, pool equipment, gate operators, and shop power all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street and road by road. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Georgia statewide, an Augusta home and a second property at the coast are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — historic 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 Georgia storms the calm way.
Very little, when it’s designed properly. We use low-profile terminals and route heavy conductor cables cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, following the architecture instead of fighting it. On Summerville’s historic homes, visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
Yes. A strike to a nearby pine, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, pool equipment, 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.
Yes. A tall pine close to the house 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, 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. When several homes on the same street or 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’s the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and 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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