Yreka system resiliency

We’re taking actions to enhance reliability and reduce the risk of equipment-related wildfires. These steps include replacing overhead power lines in areas with higher wildfire risk with fire-resistant infrastructure, such as covered conductor, and burying lines underground in some areas.

Crews and technicians are upgrading power lines and poles in the Yreka area. These enhancements will help improve the reliability of our system as we adapt to the growing threat of wildfire in the West.

• This project will upgrade the safety and reliability of power lines to help prevent wildfire.
• This project will increase community safety by replacing wooden poles with fire-resistant steel poles, and using covered conductor on power lines, which will significantly reduce wildfire risk.  

• In Yreka, crews are replacing 7 miles of overhead conductor with covered tree wire and replacing 200 wooden distribution poles and 15 transmission poles with fire-resistant steel structures. See map below. 

• Pacific Power is working closely with Siskiyou County, the California Department of Transportation, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service as well as Yreka Western Railroad and City of Yreka on this project.

Crews completed work on 5.4 miles of the project to replace conductor and power poles in 2025.

Construction will continue in 2026.    

• Pacific Power Wildfire Safety
• PacifiCorp Wildfire Mitigation Plans