Low-income communities in California have more fire-prone overhead power lines and flammable wooden poles

A tree killed in a climate-driven drought snaps and severs a power line. A transformer sparks. A downed live wire ignites a pile of dry leaves. Many of the country's most damaging wildfires, including California's deadly 2018 Camp and Woolsey Fires, Oregon's 2020 Santiam Fire, and Colorado's 2021 Marshall Fire, can be traced back to failure in the electric grid.

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