Yale Climate Connections has written an article discussing lessons learned from the 2023 wildfire season, summarizing some of the key articles written over the past year on what modern wildfires are like and how they are changing the world. However, a key takeaway from this collection is that this year was actually quiet for wildfires, creating space to prepare for the more extreme seasons to come.

Continued growth in the intensity and knock-on effects from wildfires has been broadly predicted by the scientific community, and utilities need to prepare for how they will make their systems resilient to those consequences. Members should review this and other articles and utilize the current seasonal reprieve to take a longer view by analyzing their vulnerabilities and building remediations into their planning processes. Read more at Yale Climate Connections.