Casey Kirkpatrick
Director of Group Strategic Engineering at National Grid focused on system resilience and wildfire risk; brings 25+ years of utility experience and leads National Grid's wildfire risk assessments with Rhizome.
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Mar 3, 2026 • 18min
National Grid maps its wildfire risk
Casey Kirkpatrick, Director of Group Strategic Engineering at National Grid with 25+ years in utilities, leads wildfire risk mapping. He discusses lessons learned from other utilities and the Rhizome partnership. They cover surprising seasonal peaks, suburban risk hotspots, span-level geospatial analysis, trade-offs like undergrounding, and how wildfire fits into broader climate resilience planning.
