[catalogia]

Falling birdshot is harmless, it has a low terminal velocity. When it falls on dry leaves in the fall, it sounds like rain.

The falling drone might hurt though. It conceivably might even start another fire if the battery took some damage.

[wang_li]

>It conceivably might even start another fire if the battery took some damage.

What you're saying is that all drones should be grounded if the fire risk is high.

[catalogia]

Maybe? I'm not sure. I don't know enough about the typical failure modes of a drone to say whether fire is a likely outcome. But I think the battery pack getting blasted by a shotgun stands a good chance of bringing out the worst failure modes.