PNNL outlines wildfire risk‑tool workflow, free mitigation‑plan database and preemptive operations at advisory board workshop

May 13, 2026

At a Wildfire Safety Advisory Board workshop, PNNL presented tools and resources—including an open mitigation‑plan database with an AI query layer, a best‑practices report and a modeling workflow that translates landscape wildfire likelihood into asset impacts—to help publicly owned utilities plan and operate for wildfire risk.

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers described a suite of wildfire risk tools and resources at a Wildfire Safety Advisory Board staff workshop, saying the tools aim to help publicly owned utilities and cooperatives turn landscape‑level wildfire likelihood into asset‑level impacts and operational decisions.

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