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Wildfire hazard maps are a foundational input to risk assessment, but they are often misunderstood or applied outside their intended context. While these maps characterize relative hazard based on fuels, terrain, weather exposure, and historical fire behavior, their role in decision-making depends heavily on how “risk” is being defined and used.
Please join Kevin Vogler and Daniel Russell (Filsinger Energy Partners) as they discuss the Texas Wildfire Risk Explorer and explain how different users can appropriately interpret and apply its outputs. The webinar will highlight key considerations for using the tool effectively, along with important limitations to keep in mind.
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This webinar is intended for utility risk managers, planners, vegetation management professionals, analysts, and others working at the intersection of infrastructure resilience and decision science.
Join speaker Dan Nuñez at PRF in Houston for his informational session, “Outage Proof” about how utilities and regulators can assess individual investments in the context of affordability, ensuring they align with system risk, balance other priorities, and account for lifecycle costs. Is there a common framework we can develop to quantify the benefits of resilience projects—such as avoided outages, faster restoration, and reduced customer harm—and how can planning tools help target high-risk areas and guide strategic grid hardening decisions?
California Governor Gavin Newsom highlights his state’s partnership with Filsinger Energy Partners.
“Filsinger Energy Partners are experts in transformational thinking, and they have guided us down a path over the course of the last six or so months to lay out in prescriptive detail what that 21st century utility looks like.”
While maps of wildfire behavior and consequence remain essential tools, they provide an incomplete view of the total risk landscape facing utilities. Increasing regulatory and stakeholder focus on broader system vulnerabilities has highlighted hazards that are not well captured by traditional wildfire analyses. Even mature utility risk programs now face challenges quantifying and planning for these less-understood dimensions of risk.
In this webinar, FEP’s Harry Podschwit explores how rigorous statistical methods can be used to quantify these emerging risks and integrate them into practical decision-making frameworks. The discussion centers on two often under-examined but critical components of utility risk: tree mortality and egress failure.