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Hawaii State Wildfire History Interactive Map - Geoportal

Hawaii State Wildfire History Interactive Map - Geoportal

The Hawaii State Wildfire History HWMO spearheaded comes to life in this interactive map, made possible by our friends at UH Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR). Click around the map to locate wildfires that have occurred from 2002-2011 across the entire state and track down their sizes (acreage burned).

Hawaii Wildfire Interactive Webapp

The Hawaii Wildfire webapp visualizes wildfire data across Hawaii. It has four types of data: fire history, community hazard assessments, community input information, and census data.

State of Hawaii Wildfire History Map (1999-2022)

This is an update to the wildfire incident map published in 2014. HWMO compiled fire event records from federal, state, and local fire agencies from across the board, and then staff spent countless hours putting together these records (1999-2022), checked data, and geo-located each fire. 

Ready, Set, Go! Hawaii: Your Personal Wildland Fire Action Guide

In this Action Guide, we hope to provide tips and tools you need to prepare for a wildland fire threat (Ready), have situational awareness when a fire starts (Set), and to evacuate early (Go!).

Introduction: Wildfire Basics for Professionals, Educator Series

Welcome to Wildfire Basics for Professionals: Educator series. This educator series consists of 5 training modules that are geared towards teachers interested in incorporating wildfire awareness and information into curriculum. Incorporating some of these techniques and ideas into curriculum can help students become more aware of wildfire danger, and how to mitigate wildfire risks.

Module 2: Wildfire Basics for Professionals, Educator Series

This module introduces the different steps you can take to preparing your home, yard, and family for wildfires. With the increasingly common occurrence of wildfire in Hawaii, is it important for families to prepare the places that they have control over before a wildfire starts.

Module 4: Wildfire Basics for Professionals, Educator Series

This module gives an overview of the KNOW Fire curriculum structure that will be presented in greater detail during module 5. It displays the meaning behind WHY it is important to teach wildfire concepts in a particular order, and which concepts are best to apply to different ability levels.

Module 5: Wildfire Basics for Professionals, Educator Series

This module goes over each of the curriculum activities that we recommend teaching to students. The activities are meant to be fun, challenging, and educational methods to help students learn that they can be a part of mitigating wildfires in their community. This module displays some effective methods that can be used to teach students about the many dimensions of wildfire mitigation.