The Maui Wildfire: Analyzing the Power-Grid Catch-22

Maui County, no stranger to hurricane-driven wildfires, sits in a relatively dry area covered by a rain shadow. Making this equation worse, non-native and wildfire-prone plants introduced to the region near the turn of the 19^th century easily create spot fires that rapidly and effortlessly spread (Trauernicht et al., 2015). Hawaii, after all, is a chain…