With the amount of thunderstorms this year around I was wondering if it was worthwhile to install a lightning conductor ? Last year there weren’t so many thunderstorms. Or am I just being paranoid ?
How many taller things are around you? Trees especially?
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Speaking for myself, I am almost surrounded by them. Is that good, or bad?
Its good as trees are good conductors so most likely to hit the tree before the house.
I knew there was a good reason why I always wanted to live in a forest. 
None at all, except for a single pine tree. Corn fields all around me.
Oh dear, I think you have your answer then. I should have known the answer to the question that @Corona just answered because from quite an early age we were taught at school that if caught in the middle of a large open field when a sudden storm hit, lie down and get soaked rather than cooked.
Top of hill?
Sort of on a slope.
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Maybe do a little on line research on strikes in your area. There were lightning strike apps to monitor a while back. We are low lying but one of our trees got struck and it split it vertically down the trunk. Risk is very low as lots of other tall things around us like the chateau (does have a lightning conductor).
Years ago the building I was looking after had a lightning conductor on the tower, sadly not connected to the ground! The engineer came out and suggested drilling through a terracing stone to get to earth. It was Sir Ben Kingsley’s purchased plaque, I suggested he watched Sexy Beast that evening. He returned and suggested another route to earth
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The lie down is also nuanced .. you need to make yourself compact ..not just flat . A lightening strike in the vicinity sets up a potential difference and current flow in the soil and if the head were in contact with the ground and the bottom or legs were 1.5 metre away ..the voltage difference can kill !.
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We suggesting a conductor when we had our roof redone and the roofer (a meilleur ouvrier de F) looked at us as if we were mad!
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Might have been mad before. But with science showing how hot weather induces thunderstorms and the expectation of climate getting hotter, it doesn’t seem to be a weird decision nowadays.
I wonder if installing a conductor would reduce your house insurance cost. Might be worth having a word with your insurer.