{"id":238211,"date":"2026-06-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T04:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:10:13","slug":"pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E uses artificial intelligence to weigh elevated fire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/06\/27\/pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk\/\">PG&#038;E uses artificial intelligence to weigh elevated fire risk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/06\/27\/pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk\/\">https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/06\/27\/pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 21:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"localnewsmatters.org\">localnewsmatters.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pacific Gas &amp; Electric (PG&amp;E) is using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the accuracy of its weather models for predicting wildfire risks.<\/li>\n<li>PG&amp;E has introduced Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) since 2018 to mitigate wildfire risk by cutting power in areas prone to severe wind conditions.<\/li>\n<li>An AI prediction model leverages historical data and machine learning to improve weather forecast precision, according to PG&amp;E Chief Meteorologist Scott Strenfel.<\/li>\n<li>The National Interagency Fire Center predicts &#8220;above normal&#8221; fire potential extending into September, due to factors like abundant vegetation and dry conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Although the number of wildfires is lower compared to the same period last year, they have burned around 20,000 acres more than the five-year average, highlighting an already above-average fire season in California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PG&#038;E uses artificial intelligence to weigh elevated fire risk https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/2026\/06\/27\/pge-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-weigh-elevated-fire-risk\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-27 21:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BCN-20231002-BRISBANE-03-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-238211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238213,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238211\/revisions\/238213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}