BlockKoali, Hawaii
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Hana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96713. It lies near Alaalaula Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Kipahulu quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Kipahulu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Maui quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Kipahulu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Kipahulu quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Koali between 2000 and 2012, burning about 2 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Haleakala National Park | KIPAHULU |
| 5 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 27 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 16 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 22 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 9 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Maui | not named |
| 5 March 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Haleakala National Park | LARSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Koali in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Flood | Koali | - | Periods of heavy rainfall lead to an accumulation of water on the roadways which led to the closure of Piilani highway from mile marker 29-31, as well as mile marker 16. Hana Highway was also closed near mile marker 40. |
| December 2022 | Flash Flood | Koali | - | Pillani Highway was closed from the town of Kipahulu to Ulupalakua due to heavy rainfall. Additionally, in the Kaupo/Kipahulu area, the road was washed out about a mile east of Kaupo Gulch. |
| February 2017 | Flash Flood | Koali | - | A debris flow, in this case a rock slide, caused by heavy rain blocked both lanes of Hana Highway in the vicinity of Wailua Falls in the eastern portion of East Maui. |
| October 2022 | Heavy Rain | Koali | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Koali | - | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Heavy Rain | Koali | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 361336. 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.