Strong storms have been rolling through the Central Florida region for the past few days and with that, dangerous lightning.

In an area already known as the "Lightning Capital of the United States," experts say, no person, or property is immune to the threat.

Last week, flames poured out of the roof of a large home in Viera. The fire began in the attic and investigators think it started from a lightning strike.

A month earlier on June 23, a lighting strike is to blame for a fire that gutted a Heathrow home.

And two days before that, the Lake Nona home of former college football coach Lou Holtz caught fire after a lightning strike.

"The lightning will produce a large amount of heat, so this can ignite, for example, the roof, or flammable building materials," said Florida Tech physics professor Dr. Ningyu Liu, a renowned lighting expert who studies the awesome power of the phenomenon.

Map: Cloud-to-Ground Lightning

Just one lightning bolt can generate heat at some 53,000 degrees, far more than even the surface of the sun, which is just 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

With that much current, Dr. Liu says surge protectors inside your home are useless with a direct strike.

He says only a lightning rod outside can potentially hold off the bolts.

"It gathers the current and moves it around the roof to the ground and spreads it out," said Liu.

NOAA statistics show the corridor from Tampa Bay across the state of Florida to Titusville, known as 'Lightning Alley', gets the most strikes in the U.S. every year.

Florida is also a peninsula, with water on both sides.

When the sea breeze moves over the land and meets the moisture creating clouds, right in the middle of the peak heating season from May until October, it's all the ingredients to create thunderstorms and with it, lightning.

News 13 Chief Meteorologist Bryan Karrick sees his share of lightning strikes on the radar during coverage.

He has some simple reminders to people how deadly it can be.

When thunder roars, go indoors," said Karrick. "When you hear it, fear it. If you see it, flee it. A couple of phrases we want you to remember."

On average, Florida has six lightning fatalities and 39 lightning related injuries annually.

Some 2,000 people worldwide are killed by lightning each year.