In the past two months alone, the flaming carcasses of electrocuted birds have ignited at least three wildfires in Colorado.
While the phenomenon sounds straight out of a cartoon, it’s actually more common than you’d think. It’s a big enough problem that electric utility companies brainstorm efforts to mitigate bird electrocution.
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when i lived in the backwater village this would happen up to a few times per year, but that’s mostly storks at 15kV substations, not lines
also if this doesn’t trip fuses there’s something wrong with your distribution grid
The fuseable link in this case is the bird, as soon as it catches fire and falls down. There is no longer a current path.
And there’s reclosers all over, because black start is usually worse.
