Launiupoko, HI
Launiupoko, HI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Launiupoko's 417 buildings earn a 98th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Launiupoko's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
417 buildings are counted in Launiupoko, and 92.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Launiupoko compares
Launiupoko's risk sits at a similar level relative to Hawaii (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (98th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Launiupoko ranks 506 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,874 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 9 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Launiupoko
Launiupoko's 98th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Launiupoko
With 92.6% of Launiupoko in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Launiupoko's 506-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Launiupoko, see the exposure-zones guide.