Natural hazards · Pupukea

Pupukea, HI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Pupukea comes from inland flooding, and overall the risk is very high for a U.S. community. Flood insurance has paid 14 claims here since 2012.

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

Expected damage

How exposed is Pupukea?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Pupukea to be higher than in 85% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tsunamis.

Inland flooding44%Tsunamis24%Wildfire23%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Pupukea faces

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

Inland flooding

44% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 80% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Tsunamis

24% of expected damage

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

Wildfire

23% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 98% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailEarthquakesLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Ice stormsWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesDroughtAvalanchesVolcanic 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 Pupukea flood?

Every paid claim on a federal flood insurance policy in Pupukea, from FEMA’s records.

14paid claims since 2012

$1.3Mpaid to owners

0homes flooded more than once

20122026

Biggest named events

2026-03-KonaStorm: 7 claims, $709K

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

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

Insurance rates: Honolulu County.

Disasters that hit Pupukea

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into PupukeaDeclared for Honolulu County only

Honolulu County has had 22 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often floods and hurricanes.

Around Pupukea

Pupukea and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Haleiwamostly inland floodingVery high

Kawela Baymostly tsunamisVery high

Pupukeamostly 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. Pupukea covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Pupukea’s own flood-insurance community (here, the census tracts inside it); household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Pupukea. 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 Pupukea total about $1.1M 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.