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From 2022...

Why Hawai‘i’s Wildfires Are Growing Bigger and More Intense The unfolding disaster on Maui is a sign of things to come as invasive grasses spread across the landscape and extreme rain-drought cycles intensify their fuel loads. Here's the science behind Hawai‘i’s wildfires, and the experts who are fighting to stop them.

Wonder if Hawaii has defensible space rules the way CA does...

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From 2020...

Fires Consume More Hawaiʻi Forest in Recent Years

Fires burned more than 30,000 acres of forest and brushland in both 2018 and 2019 – far more than any other year in more than a decade, according to the latest State of Hawaiʻi Data Book...