How is vegetation risk measured?
Vegetation risk can be estimated using satellite-derived NDVI, land cover, proximity to infrastructure, historical outage correlation, weather forecasts, and local operating knowledge.
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What is vegetation risk?
Vegetation risk is the likelihood that trees, branches, or dense growth near electrical infrastructure could contribute to outages. It increases when vegetation exposure overlaps with wind, ice, saturated soil, repeated outage history, or vulnerable infrastructure.
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Why does NDVI matter?
NDVI helps identify vegetation density and growth patterns. It does not prove an outage will occur, but it provides useful spatial evidence when combined with weather and outage history.
How can utilities act on vegetation risk?
Utilities can prioritize inspections, vegetation management, storm readiness, and critical corridor monitoring where vegetation exposure and weather stress overlap.
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Can vegetation risk be predicted?
Vegetation-related outage risk can be forecast probabilistically when vegetation exposure, weather stress, and historical outage patterns align.
Does NDVI identify individual dangerous trees?
No. NDVI is a broad vegetation signal. It should be combined with field inspection, GIS, weather, and utility asset knowledge.
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