Lightning storms spark house fires across Collin County, injure firefighter
Lightning-suspected fires tore through homes in Frisco, Plano and Allen Friday morning, injuring one firefighter and leaving a Collin County neighborhood reeling.
Lightning-suspected house fires raced across Frisco, Plano and Allen Friday morning, injuring one Allen firefighter and leaving a large Frisco home badly damaged as severe storms swept through Collin County. Emergency crews also answered a fourth fire in Dallas, underscoring how quickly the storm turned into a countywide emergency.
In Frisco, firefighters knocked down a 1-alarm fire at a single-family home on Possum Kingdom Drive. The two-story house sustained extensive damage, with part of the roof collapsed and second-story windows blown out. No one was injured there.
Plano Fire-Rescue investigated lightning as a possible cause in at least five fires. One on Gull Lake Drive damaged the attic and roof of an unoccupied home, and flames shot through the roof in at least one of the incidents. The cluster of calls forced crews to move fast from one scene to the next as storms moved through the city.
In Allen, firefighters responded to 1215 Morrow Lane after 7 a.m. to a two-story structure fire. One firefighter fell through the ceiling while working in the attic and suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Everyone else inside made it out safely, and the fire marshal was still working to determine the exact cause, with lightning treated as the leading possibility.
The storm threat did not stop at fire scenes. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth issued a flash flood warning for parts of Dallas, Collin and Denton counties, and radar showed 1 to 3 inches of rain had already fallen in the warned area by 7:44 a.m., with more heavy rain possible. Severe weather also knocked out power across the region, with more than 35,000 Oncor customers out earlier in the day and more than 20,000 still without service around noon in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties.
The morning outbreak fits a pattern that Collin County has seen before. A lightning fire in the county in 2025 prompted neighbors to talk about lightning rods, and a separate McKinney home fire on May 20, 2026, was also tied to lightning. Friday’s fires showed how a fast-moving thunderstorm can create the same danger in multiple cities at once, leaving firefighters to battle flames, falling debris and storm damage while residents face repairs that can begin long after the sky clears.
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