Kekaha, HI
How exposed is Kekaha to wildfire?
USFS scores Kekaha at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,297 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kekaha at the 82nd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kekaha's buildings actually sit
1,297 buildings are counted in Kekaha, and 89% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 8.3% in Direct exposure or the 2.8% rated Minimal.
How Kekaha compares
Inside Hawaii, Kekaha sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 85th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kekaha ranks 4,757 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,091 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 135 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kekaha
Kekaha's very high rating (85th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kekaha (89% 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 Kekaha's 4,757-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kekaha, see the exposure-zones guide.