Nope, those people have lived in "wildfire" areas for decades, and this problem has only gotten worse for 2 main reasons:
1) Climate change (it's hotter and drier here)
2) less maintenance to keep trees, etc. cut back - PG&E was taken to court on this one, lost, and declared bankruptcy to protect themselves against the judgement
#1 is a bigger problem to deal with, but #2 if done properly would mitigate a TON of the wildfire risk here.
TX grid - they were just cheap and didn't want to weatherize the grid against sub-zero temps. The temps 2 years ago were the lowest recorded, for the longest period of time, in over 100 years in that state. Not defending them, but that's really hard to protect yourself against.