Natural hazards · Ualapue

Ualapue, HI natural hazards

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

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Ualapue to be higher than in 98% of U.S. communities, mostly from inland flooding and tsunamis.

Inland flooding59%Tsunamis28%Earthquakes7%Everything else7%

By hazard

What Ualapue 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 98% of U.S. places

Recorded about 4 times a year in the area

Tsunamis

28% of expected damage

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

Earthquakes

7% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Lower here

Coastal floodingHurricanesTornadoesHailWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightningDroughtVolcanic 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 Ualapue flood?

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

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Ualapue 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 Ualapue

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into UalapueDeclared for Maui County only

Maui County has had 25 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. Ualapue 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 Ualapue’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Ualapue. 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.