Natural hazards · Wheeler AFB

Wheeler AFB, HI natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Wheeler AFB 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 Wheeler AFB?

Very high

vs. U.S. communities

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

Inland flooding84%Earthquakes9%Everything else6%

By hazard

What Wheeler AFB faces

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

Inland flooding

84% of expected damage

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

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Earthquakes

9% of expected damage

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

Lower here

HurricanesTornadoesHailIce stormsWildfireLandslidesStrong windLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingWinter weatherCold wavesHeat wavesDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic 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 Wheeler AFB flood?

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

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Wheeler AFB 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 Wheeler AFB

Federal disasters declared here

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

Brought FEMA money into Wheeler AFBDeclared for Honolulu County only

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

Around Wheeler AFB

Wheeler AFB and the towns around it

Very lowLowModerateHighVery high

Schofield Barracksmostly inland floodingVery high

Wheeler AFBmostly inland floodingVery high

Wahiawamostly inland floodingHigh

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. Wheeler AFB covers 1 census tract, combined by population.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Wheeler AFB’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to Wheeler AFB. 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 Wheeler AFB total about $819K 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.