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Hawaii faces mounting wildfire and climate disaster risk
An AP analysis of FEMA records shows Hawaii increasingly endures a broad disaster threat led by wildfires. The state’s fire disasters have surged since 2004, with Maui and Big Island residents recounting evacuations and calls for more prevention. Experts cite fuels, drought, land-use changes, and climate change as drivers.
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Kihei
Hawaii
Associated Press
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Paradise
Debarati Guha-Sapir
Catholic University of Louvain
Belgium
United States
National Climate Assessment
National Interagency Fire Center
University of Hawaii Manoa
Victoria Martocci
Maui
Martocci
Horizons Scuba
Lahaina
FEMA
Micah Kamohoali’i
Big Island
Mauna Kea
Linda Hunt
Waikaloa Village
Hunt
America
Federal Disaster Agency
U.S
Clay Trauernicht
Oahu
University of Hawaii
Trauernicht
Stanford University
Chris Field
U.S. Drought Monitor
Dora
Stanford
Susan Cutter
University of South Carolina
University of Albany
Jeannette Sutton
West Maui