Pāhala, Hawaii
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96777. It lies near Kauhuhuʻula Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Pahala quadrangle. 1,403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 920 feet above sea level.
On record in Pāhala
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 1 record
Puna-Ka'u Historic Districtlisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresPāhala grew from 1,356 to 1,403 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,356 | |
| 2020 | 1,403 | +47 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1923 USGS Pahala quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hawaii South quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Pahala quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Hawaii quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hawaii County Sheet 3 quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Pahala quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Pahala quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
65 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pāhala between 2003 and 2017, burning about 922 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/undetermined | 64 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 24 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | County of Hawai'i | not named |
| 18 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | County of Hawai'i | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moaʻula (historical) | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Punaluʻu | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Hīlea | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Punaluʻu Kahawai | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Honuʻapo | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Napumaia (historical) | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| ʻĀinapō | 11.0 miles | 19 | |
| Nāʻālehu | 11.2 miles | 14 |
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 Pāhala | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2594148 | The 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 362938. 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.









