Videos

Learn how to prepare your home, family, and community for wildfire in Hawaiʻi with the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO). This Ready, Set, GO! presentation walks through practical, actionable steps residents can take before, during, and after a wildfire threat.

Wildfire risk is reshaping insurance markets across the country, and Hawaiʻi is beginning to experience the impacts. Rising premiums, nonrenewals, and evolving mitigation expectations are creating new challenges for homeowners, communities, and public agencies.

This video highlights how a $1.5 million State investment is supporting community-led wildfire risk-reduction projects across four islands. Through fuel reduction, improved access roads, managed grazing, and local partnerships, communities are working to reduce wildfire risk near homes, roadways, and critical infrastructure.

This recorded webinar introduces the Fire-Resilient Landscaping Guide for Lahaina and West Maui and shares practical, locally relevant strategies for fire resilient landscaping around homes and neighborhoods. Presenters discuss how thoughtful plant selection, site planning, and ongoing maintenance can reduce wildfire risk while still supporting food, culture, clean water, and climate resilience.

This recorded webinar explores practical, cost-effective ways to make homes and communities in Hawai‘i more wildfire-resistant. Experts from Hawai‘i Wildfire Management Organization and Headwaters Economics share building material options, construction techniques, and maintenance practices that can reduce home wildfire vulnerability and help us build and retrofit with wildfire in mind!