Based on the lightning data of Anhui province from 2005 to 2010,taking the administrative region (city) as the basic unit,the risk of lightning disaster in Anhui province was analyzed.Thunderstorm day (T),Lightning density (N),population density (L) and GDP per capita (D) were introduced as main assessment indices and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model was adopted to measure the weight.The lightning risk zoning of Anhui province was obtained by the model,and previous lightning disasters were used to verify the validity of the zoning.The result shows that cities of Huangshan,Ma'anshan,Tongling,Chizhou,Anqing,Huainan,Hefei,Fuyang belong to the high risk areas of lightning disaster,while cities of Suzhou,Bozhou,Huaibei belong to the low risk areas of lightning,and other cities belong to the middle risk area of lightning disaster.