2023 State of Vegetation Management
Survey Findings

See the top causes of vegetation-related outages and how utilities are addressing climate-driven events.
Learn how utilities are handling rising contractor costs, flat and decreasing budgets, and the shortage of arborists.
Look at the move to digital solutions: Who’s going digital? Are current digital tools delivering?

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Results

Result 1

    Reliability indexes top the list of most-used KPIs

    Result 1

    Result 2

      Hazard trees outside ROWs cause the most vegetation-related outages

      Result 2

      Result 3

        Just over 50% of utilities have adjusted vegetation managment in response to changing climate conditions

        Result 3

        Result 4

          Integrated vegetation management is the top initiative for addressing climate change

          Result 4

          Result 5

            Utilities are seeing massive increases in contractor costs

            Result 5

            Result 6

              Flat and decreasing budgets are the norm over nominal increases

              Result 6

              Result 7

                Most utilities are auditing their contractors’ work

                Result 7

                Result 8

                  Utilities have recognized the need to adopt and use digital technology

                  Result 8

                  Result 9

                    Tree health and weather challenges require greater help from digital tools

                    Result 9

                    Result 10

                      Manual workarounds provide short-term fixes — not solutions — for arborist shortage

                      Result 10