Natural hazards · Olinda

Olinda, HI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Olinda comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Olinda?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Olinda to be higher than in 82% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and earthquakes.

Inland flooding59%Earthquakes25%Wildfire7%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Olinda faces

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

Inland flooding

59% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 87% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

25% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 85% of U.S. places

Wildfire

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 96% of U.S. places

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic activity

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingIce stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesAvalanchesTsunamis

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 Olinda flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Maui County.

Disasters that hit Olinda

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Maui County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Olinda itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into OlindaDeclared for Maui County only

Maui County has had 25 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often fires and hurricanes.

Around Olinda

Olinda and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Kulamostly inland floodingVery high

Olindamostly inland floodingVery high

Makawaomostly inland floodingVery high

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. Olinda covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

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

FEMA’s expected losses across Olinda total about $1.3M a year, counting buildings, people and crops.

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.