Red Flag weather days are likely during the summer and fall months in northeast Wyoming. These occur on days when weather conditions create a recipe for rapid spread of wildfire on prairies or in forested areas. 
Critical fire conditions include very dry grass, leaves, or other fuels on the ground; low humidity below 25 percent; and sustained winds of more than 15 miles per hour.
When these conditions are present, the National Weather Service will declare a Red Flag weather warning. Counties and other governing bodies will institute burn bans, travel restrictions, or other measures to reduce the risk of a human-caused fire.
In response, PRECorp removes some of the automated outage restoration features from its system. In regular weather, PRECorp has automatic reclosers that attempt to restore power without dispatching a crew. But on Red Flag weather days, these automated settings are turned off. Crews will be dispatched to outage locations to ensure that recharging the lines will not create another ignition source, such as sparks falling to the ground. 
Members may notice longer restoration times during the Red Flag days, particularly during severe thunderstorms when more detailed equipment inspections will be required before running power back to the affected lines.
In areas where the fire danger is consistent, landowners may be asked to trim trees and other vegetation back further to create a wider buffer within the right-of-way.
Anyone with questions about the Red Flag response and PRECorp’s Wildfire Risk Mitigation Plan, go to: https://precorp.coop/environmental-stewardship , or call our office at 1-800-442-3630.