Would EMP from a supernova be dangerous a few light years out?

Nuclear explosions create electromagnetic pulses which are a hazard to electronics.

Would someone a few star systems over from a core collapse supernova be in danger?

A quick search turned up only one paper on the subject, https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1975ApJ...198..439C, which was from long before the modeling work that established that the explosions are asymmetric (though the high proper motions of the remnants were a large clue).

So there's plasma at high speeds, in the galactic magnetic field and a new neutron star's magnetic field.

What might be the range of the effects, compared to all the other reasons to be distant from a supernova?

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