Kapoho, Hawaii

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.

• 1924 USGS Makuu quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hawaii North quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Kapoho quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 2 quadrangle1:100000
• 1981 USGS Kapoho quadrangle1:24000
• 1995 USGS Kapoho quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Kapoho between 1998 and 2012, burning about 167 acres in total. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Pohoiki
• Kaueleau
• Leilani Estates
• Pūʻālaʻa
• ʻOpihikao
• Kamaili

Every fire recorded in Hawaii County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kapoho in 8 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 6 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hawaii County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 360551. 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.