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Kawailoa Beach, Hawaii

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Waialua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96712. It lies near Lauhulu. The Survey maps it on the Haleiwa quadrangle.

Kawailoa Beach within Honolulu County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

321 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Kawailoa Beach between 1993 and 2012, burning about 1,832 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined321

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCity and County of Honolulunot named
29 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresCity and County of Honolulunot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Honolulu County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kawailoa Beach in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 heavy rain. 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 2017Heavy RainKawailoa Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Honolulu 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
Kapaeloa0.6 miles13
Waimea1.9 miles13
Haleʻiwa2.9 miles12
Pūpūkea3.2 miles13
Sunset Beach3.7 miles13
Kamoʻoloa4.0 miles12
Waialua4.3 miles12
Thompson Corner4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 360815. 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.