Natural hazards · Kukuihaele

Kukuihaele, HI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Kukuihaele 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 Kukuihaele?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Kukuihaele to be higher than in 99% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding72%Earthquakes23%Everything else5%

By hazard

What Kukuihaele faces

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

Inland flooding

72% of expected damage

Well above average · among the top 1% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 93% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtTsunamisVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesAvalanches

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 Kukuihaele flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Hawaii County.

Disasters that hit Kukuihaele

1 federal disaster brought FEMA money here

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

Brought FEMA money into KukuihaeleDeclared for Hawaii County only

2006

Earthquake

1 household applied for aid $566 aid approved

Hawaii County has had 29 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

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. Kukuihaele 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 Kukuihaele’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Kukuihaele. 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.