This page offers a curated collection of citable resources developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to support wildfire mitigation, research, planning, and policy development. These materials include key statistics and insights of wildfire mitigation planning across the United States, as well as publications, scientific posters, and more. Use these tools to explore trends, compare strategies, and access key findings through downloadable PowerPoints, Data Trackers, and other formats. 

Reports

• Current Best Practices On Wildfire Risk Reduction for Electric Transmission and Distribution Systems: This report outlines current best practices for reducing wildfire ignition risks from the bulk-power system, as directed by Executive Order 14308 "Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response." It includes utility-led strategies for wildfire mitigation, resilience, and recovery, drawing from U.S. and Canadian wildfire mitigation plans, research findings, and industry input. The report also highlights the growing national wildfire threat, the dual risks utilities face, and the economic case for proactive investment in wildfire risk reduction.

Posters

• RADR-Fire: Wildfire Situational Awareness Tools for Critical Infrastructure: This poster presents RADR-Fire, a wildfire situational awareness tool developed by PNNL to support critical infrastructure protection through advanced modeling, satellite imagery, and machine learning. RADR-Fire provides real-time fire spread forecasts, burn severity mapping, and risk assessments by integrating fuelscape updates, ignition scenario modeling, and AI-enhanced weather forecasting. The platform is designed to aid disaster response teams with timely, high-resolution insights for decision-making during wildfire events.

Presentations

• Utility Investments in Wildfire Mitigation Plans: This short deck provides an overview of utility investment in wildfire mitigation plans, discussing common areas of expenditure, capital and operational costs, and expenses over time.
• Statistics on Wildfire Mitigation Plans: The utility wildfire mitigation plan database will continue to grow after its official launch in June 2025. This short deck memorializes the statistics on initial publication of the database, providing insight on total number of plans, entities, years, and states, as well as spatial and temporal distribution of the plans.
• Metrics in Wildfire Mitigation Plans: Utilities employ many metrics to quantify potential ignition risks, measure mitigation performance, and trigger operational procedures. This short deck summarizes many of the metrics that appear in wildfire mitigation plans. Metrics are organized by complexity and purpose, ranging from directly measurable univariate metrics, to metrics normalized for spatial and temporal comparisons, to compound metrics composed of many input variables.
• Wildfire Benefits of Advanced Grid Technologies: Wildfire mitigation plans across U.S. utilities are increasingly adopting AGTs to reduce ignition risk, enhance operational flexibility, and limit customer impacts from power shutoffs. This deck describes nine types of advanced grid technologies (AGTs), including alternative transmission and grid-enhancing technologies, defines each one, and provides examples from utility wildfire mitigation plans where they’ve been deployed to address wildfire risks.
• Laws and Legislation for Wildfire Mitigation Plans: Utilities often develop wildfire mitigation plans voluntarily, but several states now require or define them through legislation to address statewide risk and clarify liability. This deck summarizes those laws, highlights trends linking wildfire plans to liability limits, and outlines which states have adopted such requirements.
• Wildfire Risk: Review of Utility Industry Trends: This review examines how wildfires impact electric utilities and how the industry, regulators, and financial stakeholders have responded. It draws from a wide range of sources, including academic studies, regulatory documents, and utility plans. A legislative review was also included, focusing on wildfire-related laws from 2018 to mid-2025.
• Electric Generation in Wildfire Mitigation Plans: Generation assets are involved in wildfire mitigation planning in a variety of contexts, including curtailment of generation as a consequence of de-energization, distributed and emergency generation to mitigate impacts of de-energization, and generation and energy storage assets as potential sources of ignition. This short deck identifies and provides examples of these considerations as they appear in WMPs.
• Public Safety Power Shutoffs in Wildfire Mitigation Plans: Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) are targeted de-energizations of high-risk power lines carried out by electric utilities to mitigate wildfire risk. Due to the significant trade-offs involved, PSPS is considered a last-resort mitigation strategy during periods of extremely high ignition risk. This deck reviews the history of PSPS, the criteria for activation, and utility efforts to reduce its impacts.

Data Trackers

• Utility Wildfire Risk and Liability Legislation Tracker: In recent years, legislative action at the state level has substantially shaped the financial risk profile and legal liability of electric utilities regarding wildfire ignitions. This data tracker records this action in an interactive format, allowing the user to sort and filter by metadata, such as the state, status, and date of most recent legislative action. Other fields allow the user to filter by the type of utility that is affected by and the provisions included in each bill. The provisions tracked are: WMP requirement, liability standard, caps on damages, claims deadline, wildfire fund, securitization, and cost recovery. More detailed explanations can be found in the Read Me tab.
• Grid-Enhancing Technologies Legislation: In recent years, state legislatures have advanced policy which seeks to incorporate grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), advanced transmission technologies, and advanced conductors into the electric grid. These technologies vary in what is included, and have a variety of purposes, including wildfire ignition risk reduction. This data tracker records a selection of legislation related to GETs and tracks the specific technologies and the potential benefits of these technologies as stated in the legislation.
• Common Wildfire Metrics Used in Wildfire Mitigation Plans: Utility Wildfire Mitigation Plans employ a variety of metrics for assessing mitigation progress, forecasting and situational awareness, and for triggering operational procedures, such as consideration of public safety power shutoffs (PSPS). These metrics range from univariate counts to complex indices informed by multiple inputs. This data tracker catalogues a selection of metrics from a sample of WMPs in an interactive format, allowing the user to sort and filter by fields such as complexity, category, and measurement unit. More detailed explanations can be found in the Read Me tab.