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Glenwood, Hawaii

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Keaau-Mountain View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96771. The Survey maps it on the Volcano quadrangle.

Glenwood within Hawaii County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 2004 and 2012, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
30 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
14 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
12 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named
3 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
5 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Hawai'inot named
11 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCounty of Hawai'inot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Storms near this place

9 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 9 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 8 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Flash FloodGlenwood$100,000Heavy rain led to road closures between Naalehu and Pahala due to a culvert overflowing. Highway 11 was also closed at Kawa Flats due to flooding. Then on March 14, water over Highway 11 cut off the towns on Naalehu and Pahala. The Department of Transportation reported Hawaii Belt Road (Route 11) at mile marker 57.5 at the Hilea Stream Bridge was closed due to flooding in the area.
March 2021Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
January 2021Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
March 2021Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
December 2021Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
July 2019Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
August 2016Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed
August 2016Heavy RainGlenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hawaii County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fern Forest1.8 miles14
Eden Roc2.6 miles15
Lehua (historical)3.2 miles13
Royal Hawaiian Estates3.4 miles14
Fern Acres4.1 miles13
Mountain View5.1 miles13
Mauna Loa Estates5.4 miles14
Pulu (historical)5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358827. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.