I had a ‘whole house’ surge protector installed, it is an integrated piece of the breaker box, and protects everything ‘this side’ of the breaker box.
I have cheap surge protectors/outlet multipliers where I need them.
Between the two, I’ve never had an issue.
[hijack] how does one go about cleaning their dryer vent hose? [/hijack]
The vast majority of the protection offered by any surge suppressor is a small electronic part called a varistor. It shunts large voltage spikes to ground. It’s in every surge suppressor sold.
But, as mentioned above, lightning laughs at your puny surge suppressors. Millions of volts of electricity has just surged through open air - nothing short of unplugging will truly protect electronic devices, though excellent grounding will help.
For me it is not too hard. I pull my dryer out and disconnect the hose and use my shop vacc on it and a long lint brush, usually outside. I do the same in my basement to the dryer vent pipe leading outside.
When I first moved in the vent pipe was about 50% loaded. My clothes actually dried significantly quicker once I cleaned the pipe. Now whenever it seems like the clothes are taking longer to dry and clean out the hose and pipe again.
I also use the lint brush on the lint screen area of the dryer itself. It is the same type of brush sold for cleaning the heat exchanger (grill/metal fins/radiator looking thing) under the fridge.
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Turn on the dryer. It blows a blast of air out the back, cleaning out the hose. 
Seriously, if you think lint is getting stuck in there, unscrew the clamps, remove the vent hose, and run it under a faucet. Swab it out with a rag. Dry and replace. Nothing to it.
Firefighter here. Just to echo what everyone has said about cleaning vents being important. The way i usually clean mine is to pull the dryer away from the wall, disconnect and then get all the lint out whatever way i can. A vacuum works well.
More important than cleaning (well… at least <as> important) is to make sure you don’t us the flexible plastic dryer vents. They have been the cause of more than one fire i’ve been on. Use the smooth metal ones that you can buy at your local hardware stores. Also, when installing, try for a straight shot. if you need to have bends, make them as smooth as possible to eliminate lint buildup.
I don’t know about surge protectors, but I know that Monster sells overpriced audio cables with deceptive marketing.
I would avoid buying Monster just because of their business practices. For years they have been suing any and every business that uses the word “Monster,” even if it’s completely unrelated to audio or cables. They demand the businesses either change their names or pay royalties. The latest one that was in the news was a place called Monster Mini Golf. They apparently dropped that suit in response to the bad publicity, but it remains to be seen if they are going to keep on suing others.