From Canada’s wildfires triggering air quality alerts for nearly 60 million Americans, to federal agencies launching the Be Smoke Ready campaign, to a global summit in Rome tackling integrated wildfire management — one thing is clear: this fire season is a systems-level threat.
For municipal-owned utilities, this means:
Smoke isn’t just a health issue — it’s a workforce availability issue.
Fire isn’t just in the wildland — it affects grid reliability, vegetation management cycles, and customer trust.
Federal tools are reactive — but your systems require proactive, place-based intelligence.
As climate extremes stretch across regions and sectors, local utilities are expected to act with global awareness and local precision — often with limited resources. You need tools, partnerships, and data that work at the land parcel level, not just the regional level.
As wildfire mitigation plans evolve from regulatory or grant checklists to strategic roadmaps, data like Athena’s is becoming essential. Whether balancing the expenses of vegetation management, vs equipment hardening and potential losses, in the context of reliability, insurance costs and community losses, wildfire risk is no longer hypothetical.
Contact me for a demonstration of a tool which can help you prioritize the largest wildfire risk reduction, for the lowest mitigation investment.
Municipalities must plan for the fire and the fallout — and that means embracing tools that can see both.
This season, mitigation isn’t optional — it’s operational.
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Athena Intelligence is a data vendor with a geospatial, conditional, profiling tool that pulls together vast amounts of disaggregated wildfire and environmental data to generate spatial intelligence, resulting in a digital fingerprint of wildfire risk.
Our primary clients are electric utilities, especially municipal utilities, community owned cooperative electrical companies and community aggregators. Athena’s geospatial intelligence incorporated into multiple products that can be accessed through an online portal.
Originally published a month ago