Does lightning strike some places more often than others?
Does lightning tend to favor certain locations over others? For example, is it more likely to strike a tree than the ground?
Solution 1:
Lightning does not favor a specific location or area to strike.
Solution 2:
Here is a similar question on the preference of local position of lightning. But it's worth pointing out that lightning only happens in biomes that have rain and don't have snow. So desert, ice desert, nether (no rain), taiga, and tundra (snow) don't have lightning. (Theory from code reading)