{"id":977,"date":"2026-06-09T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/wildfire-risk-is-rising-electric-cooperatives-are-acting-congress-must-too\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:56:39","slug":"wildfire-risk-is-rising-electric-cooperatives-are-acting-congress-must-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/wildfire-risk-is-rising-electric-cooperatives-are-acting-congress-must-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire Risk Is Rising. Electric Cooperatives Are Acting\u2014Congress Must Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires are no longer isolated disasters limited to the western United States\u2014they are a growing threat to communities, infrastructure, and electric grid reliability nationwide. For the 42 million Americans served by electric cooperatives, the risk is especially acute. Co-ops power more than half the nation\u2019s landmass, primarily in rural areas where wildfire danger is highest [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wildfire-risk-is-rising-electric-cooperatives-are-acting-congress-must-too\/\">Wildfire Risk Is Rising. Electric Cooperatives Are Acting\u2014Congress Must Too<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Fig4-wildfire-consuming-field-near-utility-pole-smoke-2026-01-07-02-23-11-utc\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fig4-wildfire-consuming-field-near-utility-pole-smoke-2026-01-07-02-23-11-utc.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fig4-wildfire-consuming-field-near-utility-pole-smoke-2026-01-07-02-23-11-utc.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fig4-wildfire-consuming-field-near-utility-pole-smoke-2026-01-07-02-23-11-utc-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fig4-wildfire-consuming-field-near-utility-pole-smoke-2026-01-07-02-23-11-utc-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fig4-wildfire-consuming-field-near-utility-pole-smoke-2026-01-07-02-23-11-utc-768x512.jpg 768w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires are no longer isolated disasters limited to the western United States\u2014they are a growing threat to communities, infrastructure, and electric grid reliability nationwide. For the 42 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tripcloud.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}