Maine’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
From Portland and the South Coast up the Midcoast peninsulas to Bar Harbor and Down East, from Bangor and the central Maine farm country to the western lakes and mountains, WB Lightning Rods protects Maine properties statewide — the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950.
Maine’s summer thunderstorms roll in off the Atlantic and build over the western mountains, and they find the same targets everywhere: shore homes standing on open points around Casco Bay and Penobscot Bay, historic houses in Portland and the old coastal towns, lake homes and camps on Sebago and Rangeley, and barns standing alone in central Maine fields. Tall white pines tower over roofs in nearly every Maine town, and a strike to a chimney, a ridgeline, or the pine beside the house can tear masonry, ignite framing, and send destructive current through every circuit in the building.
WB Lightning Rods works all over Maine — the South Coast, the Midcoast, Bangor and the central counties, Mount Desert Island and Down East, the York County shore, and the lakes and mountains out west. We protect the whole property: the house, the barns, the shops, and the trees that shade them, every building designed into the plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so getting protected starts with one call.
Thunderstorms that build over the Gulf of Maine arrive over shore roofs with no land to weaken them. On an open point or a harbor lot, your roofline is the tallest point around.
White pines stand above rooftops from Portland to Bangor, and pines are among the first trees lightning finds. Trees and rooflines share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
Maine’s summer homes, cottages, and lake camps sit empty for much of the year, with nobody there when a storm crosses. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not.
One company for the whole property — homes, farms, barns, trees, and every building in between, anywhere in Maine.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems designed around fine architecture and coastal living — historic Portland homes, shore homes from York to Eastport, and lake homes across the western counties.
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, guest houses, 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 Maine specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Maine 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 — from shore sand to inland clay — and where granite ledge sits near the surface, grounding is engineered for the ledge so strike energy still 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.
WB’s Maine work follows the state’s own geography. In the south it’s Portland, the Casco Bay shore towns, and the York County beaches. Up the coast it’s the Midcoast peninsulas and the Mount Desert Island and Down East shore. Inland it’s Bangor and the Penobscot valley, the central Maine farm country, and the lakes and mountains of the western counties.
Wherever your property sits, the approach is the same: the whole property protected under one plan, priced together so multiple buildings cost less per building, and installed by our own crew under the owner’s personal supervision. A dairy barn in central Maine and a summer home on the Midcoast are one call, one company.
Six regions, one crew, one standard of work — pick your part of the state.
Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, and Falmouth — historic in-town homes and shore homes around Casco Bay, where summer storms come off the Atlantic at full strength.
The long Midcoast peninsulas — Camden, Rockland, Boothbay Harbor, and Damariscotta — harbor homes, summer homes, and the farms behind the shore.
Bangor, Brewer, and the Penobscot valley, plus Waterville, Augusta, and central Maine farm country — homes under tall pines and barns in open fields.
Mount Desert Island and the Down East coast — Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Blue Hill, and Eastport — summer homes and working-waterfront properties on exposed shore.
Kennebunkport, Kennebunk, York, and Ogunquit — beach homes, second homes, and historic sea-captain houses on Maine’s southern shore.
Sebago Lake, Rangeley, Bethel, and Bridgton — lake homes and camps on open water and mountain homes on high ground, plus Oxford and Franklin County farms.
Real WB installations by our own crew — estate homes, dairy barns, horse farms, and pole barns.
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 Maine storms the calm way.
Every part of the system works together — rods on the roof, low-profile cables, and deep-driven grounds carry a strike safely into the earth.
Yes — WB serves all of Maine, statewide. Our crews run the South Coast, the Midcoast, Down East, the Bangor area, and the western lakes and mountains on regular routes, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery so distance never slows down getting your estimate.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm and estate 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.
Yes. When several homes on the same street, road, or 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’s the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and it only takes one organizer to get it started.
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 — or one that hits utility lines down the road — can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the rods 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 a house or barn 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.
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