Indiana’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Central Indiana is corn country — some of the flattest, most open farm ground in America, and a lightning rod’s worth of exposure on every farm. Pole barns, equipment barns, machine sheds, grain bins, and silos stand alone in the fields as the only tall structures for a mile, with the farmhouse at the end of the lane. Summer storms cross that flat ground at full strength. We protect the whole farm under one plan: farmhouse, pole barns, equipment barns, grain setup, and shops, every building covered.
From Hancock, Shelby, and Johnson counties through Hendricks, Boone, Hamilton’s farm ground, and up toward Tippecanoe, the central Indiana pattern repeats section after section: a farmhouse, a pole barn or two, an equipment barn full of machinery, a grain bin and legs beside the drive, and fields to the horizon. There is no high ground and no shelter — the buildings are the skyline. When a storm cell builds over the fields, lightning goes to the tallest conductor it can find, and on a corn farm that’s the grain bin, the barn roof, or the silo. A strike to a barn can ignite hay, straw, and framing; a strike to a grain setup can travel through legs, augers, and dryers; and a strike anywhere on the property can ride the wiring into the house, the shop, and every motor on the farm.
WB Lightning Rods protects central Indiana farms the way we’ve protected farms since 1950: multi-building packages that design the farmhouse, pole barns, equipment barns, grain bins, shops, and silos into one plan, priced together. 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.
A metal pole barn in a flat field is a lightning target by design — tall, conductive, and full of equipment, hay, or livestock. It is the first building we look at on any corn belt farm, and it should be protected like it.
Grain setups concentrate height and wiring in one place: bin roofs, legs, augers, and dryer circuits. A strike there can travel the whole system — grounding and bonding are designed for the setup, not just the farmhouse.
Planters, combines, and tractors represent the farm’s working capital, parked under one tall roof. Protecting the equipment barn protects the season — and the machinery the season depends on.
One company for the whole farm — farmhouses, pole barns, equipment barns, grain bins, and shops, anywhere in the central Indiana corn belt.
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 the farm country’s older farmhouses and the custom homes going up at the corn belt’s edges — clean runs that respect the roofline.
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, pole barns, equipment barns, grain bins, and shops — 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 corn belt specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, grain bin roofs, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on central Indiana 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 every down conductor, sized for central Indiana soils — 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.
Pole barns, equipment barns, grain bins, shops, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A corn belt farm is never one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole farm as one design — farmhouse, pole barns, equipment barns, grain setup, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, barn fans, grain dryers, and shop circuits all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies farm by farm down the county road. Neighboring farms that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Indiana statewide, a corn belt farm and a lake house up north under the same family are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — pole barns, farm shops, and barns 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 Indiana storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, pole barns, equipment barns, grain bins, 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.
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. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, grain dryers, and motors — and current can travel along fence lines across a field. 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.
Height and isolation are what matter most: a tall metal building alone in a flat field is a natural strike point, and its metal frame and skin conduct strike energy across the whole structure. A designed system gives that energy a controlled path to ground instead.
Yes. When neighboring farms 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.
Yes. Grain bins, legs, and dryer circuits are part of the farm design — terminals on the bin roof, grounding at every down conductor, and bonding across the setup so strike energy can’t side-flash between its metal parts.
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