I live in NJ in the US. The Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash tree populations here, leaving millions of dead ash trees, many next to power lines. Electric companies are overwhelmed and slow to chop dead ones down.

Add in global warming bringing excessive intense rain storms to soften up the ground, and wind storms happening several times a year, and the result is we lose power at least once or twice a year. Some neighbors in very heavily wooded roads lose power 5+ times a year.