BlockBefore

Wailea, Hawaii

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Kula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96753. The Survey maps it on the Makena quadrangle. 6,027 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Wailea within Maui County

Population over time

2 figures

Wailea grew from 5,938 to 6,027 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
20105,938
20206,027+89 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

83 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Wailea between 2003 and 2012, burning about 452 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/undetermined83

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
12 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot named
12 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCounty of Mauinot named
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Mauinot 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 Wailea: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Wailea MillStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Maui County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wailea in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2002Flash FloodWailea$90,000no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindWailea-A thunderstorm toppled trees in Wailea and Kula, and downed power lines in Kahului, on the island of Maui. An emergency manager estimated wind gusts to at least 50 knots with the storm. There were no serious injuries; damage estimates were not available.
October 2006Flash FloodWailea-Piilani Highway closed for a time near Okolani Drive because of high water.
May 2005Heavy RainWailea-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
Maui Meadows1.0 miles9
Keawakapu (historical)1.1 miles9
Mākena2.4 miles9
ʻUlupalakua3.7 miles9
Paako4.4 miles9
Kīhei4.6 miles8
Kēōkea4.8 miles9
Kanahena4.9 miles9

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 WaileaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4243320The 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 2414266. 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.