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Lahaina, Hawaii

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lahaina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96761. It lies near Mokuʻula Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Lahaina quadrangle. 12,702 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Lahaina within Maui County

On record in Lahaina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lahaina grew from 11,704 to 12,702 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201011,704
202012,702+998 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

153 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Lahaina between 1998 and 2019, burning about 5,266 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/undetermined153

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresCounty of Mauinot named
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresState of Hawaiinot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maui County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lahaina: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olowalu Cinder PitPumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lahaina in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1997Flash FloodLahaina$536,000no account filed
January 2024FloodLahaina-Keawe St between Honoapiilani Highway and Komo Mai St had standing water 6 to 8 inches deep.
September 2018Flash FloodLahaina-Water from heavy rain was getting into some businesses along Front Street in Lahaina in West Maui. Also, a home was inundated on Lahainaluna Road in Lahaina.
September 2015Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
October 2011Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
March 2009Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
November 2007Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
March 2006Flash FloodLahaina-no account filed
January 2004Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
February 2004Thunderstorm WindLahaina-no account filed
January 2004Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
February 2004Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
January 2004Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
December 2003Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
February 2003Funnel CloudLahaina-no account filed
October 2002Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
October 2002Heavy RainLahaina-no account filed
October 2002Flash FloodLahaina-no account filed
September 1999Funnel CloudLahaina-no account filed
December 1998FloodLahaina-no account filed
November 1997LightningLahaina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maui 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
Lunaville0.2 miles8
Puunoa0.5 miles8
Waineʻe0.6 miles8
Kelawea0.6 miles8
Māla1.0 miles8
Kapunakea1.2 miles8
Lahainaluna1.4 miles8
Narushi Camp (historical)1.5 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LahainaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012971The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 361678. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.