Haliimaile, HI
Haliimaile, HI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Haliimaile's 269 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Haliimaile at the 83rd percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Haliimaile's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Haliimaile's buildings (89.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Haliimaile ranks
Haliimaile ranks lower within Hawaii (32nd percentile statewide) than its 87th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Haliimaile ranks 3,999 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,528 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 112 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
Haliimaile and the insurance market
At the 87th percentile nationally, Haliimaile carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Haliimaile
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Haliimaile (89.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Haliimaile's 3,999-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Haliimaile, see the exposure-zones guide.