Natural hazards · Hanapepe

Hanapepe, HI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Hanapepe comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. 1 federal disaster brought FEMA money into town.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Hanapepe?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Hanapepe to be higher than in 87% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding.

Inland flooding92%Everything else8%

By hazard

What Hanapepe faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Inland flooding

92% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtTsunamis

Not a risk here

HailIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesAvalanchesVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Hanapepe flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Hanapepe.

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Hanapepe isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Kauai County.

What’s been done with FEMA grants

1buildings retrofitted against wind

Disasters that hit Hanapepe

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

Disasters the President declared that paid out in Hanapepe itself: aid to households, or repair grants to Hanapepe.

Brought FEMA money into HanapepeDeclared for Kauai County only

2006

Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides

13 households applied for aid $7K aid approved

Kauai County has had 15 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and floods.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Hanapepe is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Hanapepe’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Hanapepe. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.