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Published July 12, 2022 at 3:00PM

Lightning (via Breno Machado/Unsplash)

Fairfax County is under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch and Flood Watch as storms are expected in the region this evening.

The National Weather Service issued the watches this afternoon. They both expire at 10 p.m.

Groveton home caught fire after being struck by lightning

By Brandi Bottalico

Published June 6, 2022 at 3:55PM

A screenshot of a doorbell security video that caught a neighbor's house being struck by lightning (via Fairfax County Fire and Rescue)

A Groveton home was struck by lightning Thursday, causing a fire that was quickly extinguished, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue said.

No one was at the home in the 6800 block of Duke Drive at the time of the lightning strike but one neighbor happened to catch a video of it on a doorbell camera, the department said in a press release. The fire started on the exterior wall of a second-floor bedroom.

Fairfax County residents report loud boom, possibly caused by lightning

By Fatimah Waseem

Published September 28, 2021 at 12:15PM | Updated September 29, 2021 at 7:23AM

Lightning (via Breno Machado/Unsplash)

(Updated at 7:20 a.m.) A transformer blowing out? A meteor? Or just really loud thunder?

A big boom was reported across a wide swath of Fairfax County from Reston and Herndon to McLean around 10:40 a.m. on Tuesday, leaving many residents confused regarding the possible source.