Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization

06/10/2026

06/09/2026

☀️🍂 Worsening drought conditions are hitting home. The Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal just released its 2025 Climate Report, and the findings underscore a growing climate challenge for our islands. 📊📉

In 2025, a staggering 65% of Hawaiʻi experienced abnormal dryness or worse. Driven by rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns, these prolonged dry spells are straining our water resources, harming local agriculture, and drastically elevating wildfire risks statewide. 🔥🌾

Water is life—ola i ka wai—and tracking these climate trends is the first step toward building a resilient future. While macro policy changes are underway, daily conservation at home acts as a powerful collective shield for our underground aquifers. 💧🛡️

Simple, water-smart actions you can take today:
🚿 Upgrade fixtures: Swap out old showerheads and aerators for low-flow models.
🌱 Smart irrigation: Water your yard in the early morning or evening to stop evaporation loss.
🧼 Go efficient: Run dishwashers and laundry only with full loads.

💰 Oʻahu Residents: The Board of Water Supply offers fantastic cash rebates for installing water-efficient toilets, clothes washers, and rain barrels!

👇 Get Informed & Save Money: 👇
📖 Read the full 2025 Climate Report:

🔗https://www.hawaii.edu/climate-data-portal/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2025-Climate-Report-Final_HCDP_Library.pdf

💵 Claim your water-saving rebates:
🔗 boardofwatersupply.com/residentialrebates

06/03/2026

05/31/2026

Hawaiʻi Island’s Kanehoa Firewise Community completed two wildfire preparedness projects through its Spring 2026 Cost Share Project.

The community updated a 30-year-old irrigation system, with residents contributing the labor and grant funds covering parts and materials. The community also used remaining grant funds for a roll-off dumpster and to limb up Ironwood trees. Some residents also used the green waste dumpster to clear vegetation from their own properties.

Great work, Kanehoa! Community members spent over 100 hours on these projects, not including the many texts, emails, and phone calls between committee members.
“Our community spent over 100 hours on our two projects.”

05/30/2026

Tip for Wildfire Community Preparedness Month - Clear needles, leaves, and other debris from roofs, gutters, porches, and decks.

Find more of these prep cards at wildfireprepday.org.

05/29/2026

Mahalo nui loa to everyone who joined us for the 2026 Hawaiʻi Wildfire Summit. We were encouraged and genuinely happy to be among so many people from different sectors and communities, coming together to exchange ideas, talk story, and enjoy meals and laughs together. Spending time planning, connecting, and moving forward together like this is one of the most important ways we build real resilience. We’re so grateful for your time, participation, and engagement, and we hope you came away with new connections, useful insights, and lasting impacts.

We’re already thinking about the next summit and how we can continue improving to best support the growing interest from our wildfire resilience community.

Please take 2 minutes to fill out our summit survey and help inform future events. Your feedback means a lot to us and helps us keep learning, improving, and creating summit experiences that better support this growing community.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/ib9m8Aceu94ot4SY6

Session recordings from the summit are now available on the summit website for anyone who missed a session or would like to rewatch and learn from the presentations.

Watch here: https://www.hwmo.org/wildfiresummit2026

05/28/2026

Hawaiʻi Island’s Kumulani Firewise Community completed several wildfire preparedness projects with support from wildfire mitigation funding.

Sixteen community members contributed 44 volunteer hours toward vegetation reduction, emergency access improvements, and community preparedness. Projects included removing 15 cubic yards of dead vegetation and ladder fuels from around homes and common areas, clearing vegetation buildup from 20 garage roofs covering more than 10,000 sq. ft., installing a Knox Box at the main community gate to improve emergency responder access, and sharing evacuation planning and Firewise educational materials with residents.
Great work, Kumulani!

05/26/2026

Tip for Wildfire Community Preparedness Month - Pets are part of the family. Make sure wildfire evacuation plans include your pets.

Find more of these prep cards at wildfireprepday.org.