Hawaii’s Lahaina Fire killed over 100 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. California’s Eaton Fire triggered the evacuation of over 100,000 residents. Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire burned over one million acres.

These are just some of the many fires that were ignited by electrical utility infrastructure in the US. The fallout from these disasters has triggered a wave of recent legislation rewriting the rules of how utilities operate in numerous US states, but officials at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Smart Electric Power Alliance said lawmakers lacked a way to track how each state is addressing the problem.

The two organizations, in response, created a new interactive map that provides a state-by-state view of wildfire-focused utility laws. The tracker shows which states are pursuing wildfire mitigation strategies, along with which measures have passed or failed.

“Research shows that states considered more wildfire-related legislation in 2025 than they had during the previous 10 years combined,” the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory said in a press release. ” Currently, the map shows 44 legislative and regulatory actions across 18 states. PNNL and SEPA plan to update the map as new actions are introduced.”

The agencies had previously been tracking wildfire-focused utility legislation on their own, but decided to combine their efforts after representatives met at a conference and started comparing notes, according to the press release. Their new goal is to translate policy developments across states into something policymakers can act on.

The tracker also offers an alternative for those involved in wildfire mitigation planning who would otherwise have to search through hundreds of documents cast in state-specific contexts buried within bill management systems in state legislative sessions, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Electricity Infrastructure Advisor Rebecca O’Neil said in the press release.

“States across the country can benefit from an interactive tool like WRAPT – from states in the West as they consider policy options and interactions, states in the Midwest as they consider best practices and get in front of this issue as it arrives and states in the East adapting this playbook as they balance utility investment against the threat of wildfire,” O’Neil said.

Click here to use the tracker for yourself.