Tennessee’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Blount County sits where the valley meets the Smoky Mountain foothills: homes in Maryville and Alcoa, dairy and cattle farms across the valley floor around Greenback and Friendsville, and foothill homes climbing toward Townsend, Walland, and Wears Valley. Storms build over the mountains and roll down the foothills onto the farms and rooftops below. We protect the whole property: farmhouse, barns, shops, silos, and garages, every building covered.
From Maryville and Alcoa through the farm country toward Greenback, Vonore, and Friendsville to the foothill homes toward Townsend and Walland, Blount County mixes in-town neighborhoods with some of East Tennessee’s hardest-working farm ground. The exposure runs with the terrain: storms build over the Smokies, break across the foothills first, and sweep the valley floor where the barns, silos, and farmhouses stand. Dairy and cattle barns hold animals, feed, milking equipment, and a season of hay in one structure — and a strike to a barn roof or a chimney can tear masonry, ignite framing or hay, and send destructive current through every circuit on the property.
WB Lightning Rods protects Blount County properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, barns, sheds, shops, and silos into one plan, and low-profile home systems that respect the architecture. Grounding is engineered for valley clay and foothill rock. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Storms build over the Smokies and break across the foothills before they reach the valley. Foothill homes and farms around Townsend and Walland sit directly in that first path.
Blount County barns, sheds, and silos stand in open valley fields — the tallest points around, holding animals, feed, and milking equipment. A barn fire is the worst-case loss protection is built to prevent.
Maryville’s established neighborhoods carry homes and mature trees side by side, with chimneys above the canopy. Trees and rooftops share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
One company for the whole property — farmhouses, dairy barns, cattle barns, homes, and shops, anywhere in Blount 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 Blount County farmhouses and historic Maryville 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 — farmhouse, barns, sheds, 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 Blount County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Blount County 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, engineered for valley clay and foothill rock, 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, sheds, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Blount County farm is never one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — farmhouse, dairy and cattle barns, pole buildings, sheds, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, milk-house power, barn fans, and shop power all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies road by road. Neighboring farms that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Tennessee statewide, a Maryville farm and a second property in the Smokies or at the lake are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — dairy barns, farmhouses, and horse 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 Tennessee storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy and cattle 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. Farm 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.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, milk-house power, 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.
Rock and shallow foothill soils need more grounding layout, not less protection — rods are laid out and grounded for the ground on your property, then verified as part of the installation. WB designs every system for its property’s actual conditions.
Yes. When neighboring farms and homes 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 hardwood close to the house or barn 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.
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