Blitzortung for Home Assistant (Marketplace integration)

Installs: 6.1k sharing analytics
GitHub stars: 352
Connection: Uses the vendor's cloud
Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months
Version: v1.7.4, October 24, 2026
Category: Weather and alerts, Public warnings
Kind: Marketplace integration
Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
Domain: blitzortung
Source: github.com/mrk-its/homeassistant-blitzortung
Issues: Report an issue

Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation.

About

Blitzortung is a Home Assistant integration that reports real time lightning strikes near a chosen location using Blitzortung.org data. It adds sensors for the distance and azimuth of nearby strikes and a counter of strikes. It also emits geo location events for strikes, which show on the map. Data reaches Home Assistant through a public MQTT server run for this component, which reduces the data sent to clients compared with a direct connection to Blitzortung servers. The location can be fixed coordinates, which default to the home location, or a device tracker, person or zone entity that the integration follows. Options cover the detection radius, the time window for tracked strikes and the maximum number of tracked strikes, and setting that maximum to zero turns off the strike entities while the sensors keep working. Setup is done in the UI.

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Supports

Uses the vendor's cloud Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor.
From the Marketplace Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
Actively maintained Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

Provides

Sensors

Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

Connect

Configuration typeThe integration can be configured for static coordinates or follow the location entity.

Entity

Location entityThe device_tracker, person or zone entity whose location will be used by the integration.

Coordinates

Name of the integration instanceThe name the integration will use for this configuration.
LatitudeA decimal number representing latitude.
LongitudeA decimal number representing longitude.

Change the connection

LatitudeA decimal number representing latitude.
LongitudeA decimal number representing longitude.

After setup

Lightning detection radiusRadius of the circle for which lightnings will be detected.
Time windowLifetime of tracked lightnings in minutes.
Maximum number of lightningsMaximum number of tracked lightnings. Set to 0 to create no lightning strike entities (the sensors keep working).

Texts from the code of mrk-its/homeassistant-blitzortung.

Entities

SensorsLightning azimuth, Lightning counter, Lightning distance

Troubleshooting

DiagnosticsDownloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.

From the README

Blitzortung.org is a worldwide, real time, community collaborative lightning location network. This component uses Blitzortung data and provides real time notifications about lightning strikes in a given area (by default within 100km radius of your home). Data is served through a public MQTT server (dedicated to serve requests for this component) - thanks to geohash-based topics and some other optimizations, it greatly reduces amount of data sent to clients comparing to direct websocket connection to Blitzortung servers (it is also required by Blitzortung data usage policy - third party apps must use their own servers to server data for their own clients).
distance and azimuth sensors of lightning strikes nearby
counter of lightning strikes
emits geo_location events for lightning strikes (visible on the map)
data is realtime, with average delay of few seconds

From the README of mrk-its/homeassistant-blitzortung, MIT License. Shortened.