Ualapue, HI
How exposed is Ualapue to wildfire?
Ualapue's 190 buildings earn a 93rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ualapue at the 91st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ualapue's building exposure, zone by zone
190 buildings are counted in Ualapue, and 92.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.1% rated Minimal.
How Ualapue compares
Inside Hawaii, Ualapue sits at just the 63rd percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Ualapue ranks 2,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,233 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 61 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ualapue
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Ualapue 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 Ualapue
With 92.1% of Ualapue 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 190 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ualapue. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ualapue, see the exposure-zones guide.