Especially in CA, the utilities are ramping up fire hardening (going ug when they can, replacing wood poles with metal where they can't) and, especially in Southern CA, have been doing this for years. PGE is well behind, and they've paid dearly for it.

But even in places that don't see widespread outages from weather, electric lines should be underground. This protects from local outages; and while initial costs are high, long-term cost is a fraction of the overall cost of replacing above-grade lines when things go bad.