Rhode Island’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Northern Rhode Island is the state’s inland high side: Woonsocket and the Blackstone valley mill towns, Cumberland and Lincoln, and Smithfield, Glocester, and Burrillville’s hills and small farms. Summer thunderstorms build over the northern hills and roll down the Blackstone valley almost daily, and tall oaks and pines stand over rooftops in every town. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
From Woonsocket and Cumberland through Lincoln, North Smithfield, and Johnston to Smithfield, Glocester, and Burrillville, northern Rhode Island mixes historic mill-town housing with suburbs and working small farms on rolling, wooded ground. The pattern is the same all summer: heat builds all day and storms fire by afternoon, striking the high ground and the tall trees first. A strike to a chimney can tear masonry and send destructive current through every circuit in the house, and a strike to a barn roof in the hill towns can ignite hay and framing faster than anyone can respond.
WB Lightning Rods protects northern Rhode Island properties the way we’ve protected homes and farms since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the architecture for in-town and suburban homes, whole-property packages for the area’s farms that design every building into one plan, and grounding sized for inland soils and ledge. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
The northern hills build thunderstorms almost every summer afternoon. It isn’t one storm a year — it’s a season of them, and tall trees and taller chimneys are where that energy lands.
Northern Rhode Island’s oaks, maples, and pines tower over rooftops from Woonsocket to Burrillville. Trees and rooflines share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
Horse, hay, and livestock farms across Glocester, Foster, and Burrillville stand in open fields on high ground — the tallest structures around, holding animals and feed.
One company for the whole property — mill-town homes, suburban homes, farmhouses, barns, and shops, anywhere in northern Rhode Island.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Cumberland, Lincoln, and Smithfield custom and suburban homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines 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, shops, garages, 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 northern Rhode Island specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on northern Rhode Island 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 inland soils — clay, gravel, and ledge included — 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 garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A northern Rhode Island property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, garages, and outbuildings, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, barn fans, pool equipment, and shop power all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street. Neighbors in the same neighborhood or on the same road who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Rhode Island statewide, a Cumberland home and a second property in South County are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — homes, barns, and farmhouses 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 Rhode Island storms the calm way.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, pool equipment, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
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.
Very little, when it’s designed properly. We use low-profile terminals and route heavy conductor cables cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, following the architecture instead of fighting it. Visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
Yes. When several homes in the same neighborhood or 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.
A tall tree close to the house can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We offer lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Whole-property 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.
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