Delaware’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Sussex County is Delaware’s farm engine — the heart of Delmarva poultry country, with grain farms, produce, and farmhouses spread across the flattest land in the state. Poultry houses are long, low, and packed with birds and electrical systems; barns and silos stand alone in open fields. Summer storms come off the bay and the ocean at full strength. We protect the whole farm under one plan: farmhouse, poultry houses, barns, pole buildings, and silos, every building covered.
From Seaford and Laurel through Georgetown, Millsboro, Bridgeville, and Greenwood, Sussex County raises a large share of America’s broiler chickens alongside grain, soybeans, and produce. A modern poultry house is a long metal-clad building full of fans, feed lines, controllers, and thousands of birds — and it sits in the middle of open, flat fields where it is the tallest grounded structure around. Add the county’s barns, silos, and farmhouses, and a summer storm season means constant exposure: a single strike can fire a barn, knock out ventilation and kill a flock, or take out a farm’s electrical service in one flash.
WB Lightning Rods is a Delaware company — headquartered in Newark, family owned since 1950 — and Sussex County is core home turf. We protect farms with whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, poultry houses, barns, pole buildings, 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 single poultry house holds thousands of birds plus the fans and controllers keeping them alive. A strike on the service lines can mean a lost flock — protection and grounding are cheap insurance by comparison.
Sussex fields run flat to the horizon. The tallest structure on the farm — a silo, a barn, a poultry house roofline — is simply where lightning lands.
Sussex County is a straight run down Route 1 and 113 from our Newark headquarters. Estimates, installations, inspections, and maintenance checks are all local work for our crews.
One company for the whole farm — farmhouses, poultry houses, barns, pole buildings, and silos, anywhere in Sussex County.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for farmhouses and custom homes across the county — from historic Georgetown and Milton homes to new builds outside the beach towns.
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, poultry houses, barns, pole buildings, 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 Sussex County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, poultry-house ridges, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on Sussex 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 each structure, sized for local soils — much of Sussex is sandy, and the grounding is sized for it — 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.
Poultry houses, barns, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A working farm is never one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole farm as one design — farmhouse, poultry houses, barns, pole buildings, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, ventilation controllers, feed systems, and irrigation 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 is a Delaware company, farms across Sussex and Kent 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 — barns, poultry-country buildings, 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 Delaware storms the calm way.
Yes — poultry houses are some of the most important buildings we protect in Sussex County. Long rooflines get terminals and conductors along the ridge, each house gets its own grounding, and bonding ties the structure into the farm’s plan so strike energy has a controlled path to earth instead of through fans, feed lines, and controllers.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, poultry houses, 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.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring and ventilation controllers — and in a poultry house, lost ventilation is an emergency within the hour. Grounding and bonding give strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
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. 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 — WB is headquartered at 560 Peoples Plaza in Newark and has been family owned and operated in Delaware since 1950. Sussex County is home turf for our crews.
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