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Wood utility poles are central to many electrical distribution networks, yet there have been no published studies to determine what operational characteristics of utility poles are indicative of decay in the field. We apply survival analysis to a database of more than 17 000 utility poles in the Pacific Northwest, and find that larger circumference poles decay sooner, that Douglas fir poles...