For utilities, risk‑informed planning and targeted grid hardening are key to reducing ignition likelihood in areas with the highest wildfire threat. Such approaches create a strategic, data-driven foundation for all other wildfire mitigation efforts. Using risk models and data to strengthen infrastructure enables utilities to prioritize where and how to invest in wildfire prevention. 

Demonstrable, risk‑based justification for mitigation spending

Utilities need to prove—to regulators and stakeholders—that every dollar spent reduces wildfire risk in a measurable, prioritized, and cost-effective way. Creating a risk-based justification requires: 

• The ability to score risk by location or asset and then focus mitigation efforts where they will deliver the greatest safety benefit.  
• Proposals for concrete action in each high-risk area, with an estimate of how much each action reduces ignition probability and potential fire consequences. 
• A cost-to-mitigate vs. risk-reduction analysis to produce a prioritized investment plan. 
• Metrics to validate success, with plans for measurable outcomes and performance. 

It's all about the data 

Creating informed, justifiable planning and hardening strategies with the desired performance outcomes requires real-time data and predictive analytics. Next-generation AMI, such as Landis+Gyr’s Revelo®, provides both the high-resolution data and the analytics to turn the distribution grid into a high-resolution safety sensor network and ensure successful planning and grid hardening. 

Get the details on how Revelo uniquely equips utilities to improve planning, guide investment, and focus mitigation efforts where they will do the most good. Download the Next Generation Wildfire Mitigation brief here.