Virginia’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Franklin County is Virginia’s number-two dairy county — working dairy farms spread across the foothills south of Roanoke, with big barns, tall silos, and farmhouses standing open to storms that come off the Blue Ridge. We protect the whole farm under one plan: house, dairy barns, silos, and outbuildings, every building covered.
From Rocky Mount and Route 220 through Ferrum, Callaway, and Wirtz to Boones Mill, Glade Hill, and the county’s western shore of Smith Mountain Lake — Franklin County farms share one exposure: height in open country. A dairy barn with a silo beside it is the tallest structure for a mile in every direction, and summer thunderstorms that build over the Blue Ridge foothills roll across these farms at full strength. A strike can fire a hay-filled barn in minutes, split a silo, or run a surge through milk-house equipment and well pumps farm-wide.
WB Lightning Rods protects working farms the way we’ve protected Virginia agriculture since 1950: whole-farm packages built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA — farmhouse, dairy barns, silos, shops, and outbuildings designed into one plan and priced together. 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.
On open Franklin County ground, the silo and the barn roof beside it are where lightning lands. Protecting the barn means protecting the silo, the roofline, and everything under both.
The barn holds the herd, the hay, the feed, and the milk house — the whole farm’s livelihood under one roof. A barn fire in dairy country is not a building loss; it’s the operation.
Summer is peak storm season and peak work season at once. Crews in open fields, metal equipment, and twice-a-day milkings don’t pause for weather — protection has to be in place before the season turns.
One company for the whole farm — dairy barns, silos, farmhouses, and shops, anywhere in Franklin County.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Systems designed for farmhouses and country homes alongside the working buildings — with clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines.
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 — farmhouse, dairy barns, silos, shops, and outbuildings — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole farm 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 Franklin County farms specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along barn ridgelines, silo tops, cupolas, chimneys, and rooflines — the high points lightning seeks first on working farms.
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, designed for the foothills’ clay and rocky soils so strike energy disperses quickly and 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.
Dairy barns, silos, equipment shops, run-in sheds, and farmhouses incorporated into the farm plan — no building left exposed.
A working farm is never one building — it’s the farmhouse, the dairy barn, the silo, the shop, and the sheds, spread across the operation. Our whole-farm packages price it all as one design, every building protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves nothing standing exposed between them. Milk-house equipment, well pumps, bulk tanks, and wash systems all ride the farm’s electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies farm to farm. Neighboring farms that install on the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Virginia statewide, a Franklin County farm and a second property at Smith Mountain Lake or up the valley are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — dairy barns, silos, and farm buildings 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 Virginia storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the main house, barns, stables, indoor arenas, shops, and run-in sheds 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.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your farm — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
Yes — inspections and repairs are a big part of what we do. We inspect older systems, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Yes. A metal-roofed arena is often the largest, tallest roof on the farm, and run-in sheds stand alone in open pasture. Both are designed into the farm’s plan with their own terminals, conductors, and grounding.
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, arena lighting, 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. When several farms or homes on the same 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 only takes one organizer to get it started.
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