Lightning, Oxford
- When
- July 25, 11:00 AM EST
- Where
- Oxford County, Bethel
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 44.500, -70.757 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Maine, July 25, 1999
A pre-Civil War home in Bethel sustained extensive fire damage after being struck by lightning. It took two hours to contain the fire, and the upper stories of the home will have to be rebuilt.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GYX wrote it up.
A pre-Civil War home in Bethel sustained extensive fire damage after being struck by lightning. It took two hours to contain the fire, and the upper stories of the home will have to be rebuilt. The remainder of the home suffered smoke and water damage.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
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The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, July 25, 1999
- Wildfire in California, July 25 to 27, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, July 25, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 25, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 25, 1999
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 25, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 25, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, July 25, 1999
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 25, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 25, 1999
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 25, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 25, 1999
More
Every storm in Maine in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, July 1999
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5715873.