The Altadena and Palisades fires last year were the latest in an escalating series of wildfires in the state. Californians have lost homes, community, and—in some tragic cases—their lives. Wildfires are also raising insurance premiums and threatening the state’s giant sequoias and the headwater regions that provide most of California’s water supply. This year threatens to be another above-average fire season. …The good news is that the state is engaged in an unprecedented multi-agency effort to reduce severe wildfire hazard… In a new report, the Public Policy Institute of California analyzed data from the task force that’s coordinating and tracking these efforts. We found the progress toward the goal accelerated between 2021 through 2024, with an average of 591,000 acres undergoing work to reduce wildfire hazard each year. The task force’s recently released five-year action plan doubles down on the need to prioritize the most at-risk landscapes with a call to “treat the worst first.”