The odds for that happening are 1 in a million. How did we measure this?
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The number comes from the CDC and is the chance of any given American getting struck by lightning in any given year. So average number of Americans struck by lightning divided by US population. An individual’s chances can go up significantly by being where lighting is likely to strike, but that doesn’t affect the average chances.
See https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html
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