You seem to have missed my point. The meters may not be UL listed, but they surely are underwritten by the power company’s insurance carrier. I highly doubt that anybody is putting devices onto power lines that have not been tested properly. Business just doesn’t work that way.
Do you have any sources for your claims about fires? It sounds like hokum.
Used to be a smart meter manufacturer headquartered not far from here.
Set up shop in a hillbilly poverty pocket Appalachian county (until they exhausted all the bribes....er, tax incentives coming from the State. Then they pulled up stakes and moved to another state further south to milk theirs). And the meters themselves were being manufactured in Mexico.
Nothing could possibly go wrong with THAT now, could it?