Georgia’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Northeast Georgia runs from Athens’ classic in-town neighborhoods out through Watkinsville and Oconee County horse country to the shores of Lake Oconee. The mix is the exposure: historic homes under mature trees in town, barns and arenas standing in open pasture, and lakefront homes with long rooflines over open water. Summer thunderstorms fire over the northeast almost daily, and every one of those rooftops is the tallest point around. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and guest houses, every building covered.
From Athens and Watkinsville through Winder, Jefferson, and Commerce to Greensboro and Eatonton on Lake Oconee, the northeast mixes three exposures. In town, Five Points and the classic Athens neighborhoods carry tall chimneys and big trees. In Oconee County, horse farms put barns and arenas in open fields. On Lake Oconee, waterfront homes stand on open water where storms sweep in unbroken. A strike to a chimney or barn roof can tear masonry, ignite framing or hay, and send destructive current through every circuit on the property.
WB Lightning Rods protects northeast Georgia properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems for historic and lake homes that respect the architecture, and whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, barns, arenas, 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.
Oconee County’s barns and arenas stand in open fields — the tallest structures for a mile, holding horses, hay, and tack. A barn fire is the worst-case loss, and it’s the one protection is built to prevent.
Lake Oconee’s shore homes sit on open water where storms arrive unbroken. On a lake lot, the roofline is the highest point for a long way in every direction.
Athens’ older neighborhoods pair tall chimneys with mature canopy. Trees and rooftops share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
One company for the whole property — classic homes, horse farms, lake houses, and barns, anywhere in northeast Georgia.
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 Athens’ historic homes, Lake Oconee waterfront houses, and custom homes across the northeast — 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, arenas, shops, 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 northeast Georgia specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and arena roofs — the high points lightning seeks first on northeast Georgia 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 — Piedmont clay to lake-shore ground — 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, arenas, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, and boathouses incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A northeast Georgia property is rarely one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, arenas, shops, and guest houses, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, pool equipment, dock power, and arena lighting all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies road by road. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Georgia statewide, an Athens home and a second property at Lake Oconee or in the mountains 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, horse barns, and lake-style homes 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for horse farms cover the farmhouse, horse barns, arenas, pole buildings, 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 — and lake houses are exactly where protection matters most, because nobody is home to smell smoke or cut power when a storm hits. 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.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, 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.
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. Visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
Yes. When several homes on the same street or lake 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 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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