Indiana’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Southwest Allen County — Aboite and the neighborhoods growing out past the city’s edge — pairs tall custom-home rooflines with open farm ground, while Fort Wayne’s older neighborhoods stand under big river-town trees. Northeast Indiana storms arrive at full strength across that flat country. We protect the whole property under one plan: house, barns, shops, and trees, every building covered.
Fort Wayne sits in flat northeast Indiana where three rivers meet, and its exposure runs both ways. In town, the historic neighborhoods carry tall older homes under mature canopy. Out in Aboite Township and across Allen County, custom homes and small farms stand on open ground — barns, pole barns, and silos the tallest points for a mile, farmhouses at the end of long lanes. Summer storms cross that country with nothing to slow them down, and a strike to a barn roof or a chimney can ignite framing and hay or send destructive current through every circuit in the house.
WB Lightning Rods protects Fort Wayne properties the way we’ve protected homes and farms since 1950: low-profile systems for the city’s historic homes, and whole-property packages that design the house, barns, pole barns, and shops into one plan for the county’s farms and acreages. 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.
Southwest Allen County’s custom homes stand tall on open lots at the farm country’s edge. With no higher ground around, the roofline is the target — and it deserves a designed system, not a guess.
Across the county’s farm ground, barns, pole barns, and grain setups are the only tall structures for hundreds of yards. A strike there risks the building, the equipment, and the crop stored inside.
In town, the canopy is the exposure: mature trees standing over tall older homes, sharing the strike zone with the chimneys they shade.
One company for the whole property — custom and historic homes, barns, pole barns, and farmhouses, anywhere in Fort Wayne and Allen County.
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 Fort Wayne’s historic neighborhood homes and Aboite’s custom homes — 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, pole barns, shops, and silos — 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 Allen County properties specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Fort Wayne homes and 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 Allen County 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.
Barns, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
Aboite’s subdivisions and Allen County’s farms share a fence line in places, and they share the same storms. Our designs follow the property: a custom home gets a quiet, roofline-fitted system; a farm gets a multi-building package that prices the farmhouse, barns, pole barns, shops, and silos as one design — all protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them.
Neighboring homes and farms that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Indiana statewide, a Fort Wayne home and a lake house in the northern lakes under the same owner are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — custom homes, barns, 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 Indiana storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, 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.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Multi-building packages price the property 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. 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. When several homes or farms 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.
It’s designed not to. Terminals are sized to sit quietly on the roofline, and conductors run cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines. On Fort Wayne’s older homes the finished system is protection you have to look for to see.
Yes. A tall tree 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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