Overstory

What is Overstory?

Overstory is a grid risk management platform for electric utilities. Its AI models use satellite imagery to find where vegetation, wildfire and storm conditions threaten power lines. The platform maps hazards such as tree health, height, location and fuel risk, then converts that analysis into prioritized work.

Key capabilities of Overstory

• Vegetation: Finds trees most likely to disrupt service.
• Wildfire: Models where ignitions could start and spread.
• Storm: Shows where the network is most vulnerable to incoming weather.
• Unified risk view: Combines signals into a single risk map and action plan.
• Intervention comparison: Compares options by budget, timeline and expected risk reduction.
• Work orders: Turns priorities into program plans and field work orders.

How Overstory works

Overstory analyzes satellite imagery, weather, and tree health and fuel data, and it can also use sensors, cameras, weather stations and work order systems a utility already runs. Those inputs feed a single view of risk. Planners then compare interventions and send prioritized jobs to field crews.

Who uses Overstory?

Electric utilities, including transmission and distribution operators, and their operations, asset performance, vegetation management and wildfire mitigation teams. The vendor says it is trusted by 6 of the 10 largest utilities in North America.

Overstory pricing

Overstory does not publish pricing. Utilities contact the company for a quote.

Overstory alternatives

Aerobotics applies satellite and drone analysis to tree crops in agriculture rather than power-line risk. Taranis offers crop monitoring from aerial imagery for farms. Azure AI Vision is a general image-analysis service that requires a team to build its own utility risk models.