Day: October 17, 2026

Camp Fire, as seen by the Landsat 8 satellite on November 8, 2018. Red highlights active fire seen in infrared. Utility-caused wildfires are a subset of human-caused wildfires that are directly ignited by utilities, usually power lines. They are unplanned ignitions that can cause wild burns. [1] Hotter and drier weather as a result of climate change has been liked to lower moisture content in …