Name: Wildfire in Hawaii, July 8, 2001
Start: 2001-07-08T12:11
End: 2001-07-08T16:30
Location: Hawaii

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS HFO wrote it up.

A brush fire burned 10 acres along Kaukonahua Road above Waialua, near the University of Hawaii Poamoho experimental farm. However, no structures were affected by the blaze, no homeowners were evacuated from the area, and no injuries or other significant damage were reported. Forty firefighters, along with their equipment, were needed to contain the fire.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Honolulu, HI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 8, 9:28 AM HST, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 9:28 AM HST, 2 hours 43 minutes before

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SYNOPTIC DISCUSSION AND GUIDANCE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
10 AM HST SUN JUL 8 2001

SUMMARY...ISOLATED NIGHT AND MORNING SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE WINDWARD
AND MAUKA SECTIONS WITH MODERATE TRADE WINDS AT 10 TO 20 MPH. MORE
GENERAL TRADE SHOWERS WILL AFFECT THE BIG ISLAND. TRADES WILL
INCREASE A BIT ON TUESDAY.

DISCUSSION...ISOLATED SHOWERS IN THE TRADE FLOW WILL END BY NOON...
BUT HIGH CIRRUS CLOUDS ARE MOVING OVER THE ISLANDS FROM THE WEST AND
WILL TEND TO CLOUD SKIES OVER THIS AFTERNOON. SOME MORE PREVALENT
SHOWERS OVER THE BIG ISLAND SHOULD ALSO GIVE WAY TO PARTLY CLOUDY
SKIES BY AFTERNOON. ANOTHER AREA OF BROKEN CLOUDINESS WITH SOME
EMBEDDED SHOWERS WILL AFFECT THE BIG ISLAND THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT...SPREADING TO WINDWARD SECTIONS OF THE OTHER ISLANDS BY
MORNING. SHORT WAVES MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERIC
FLOW MONDAY MAY WELL BRING MORE DENSE CIRRUS CLOUDS OVER THE
ISLANDS FROM THE WEST...THEN EXPECT THE UPPER TROUGH TO OUR
NORTHEAST TO SHARPEN UP OVER OR JUST EAST OF THE BIG ISLAND TUESDAY
AND WEDNESDAY...STRENGTHENING THE SURFACE HIGH TO OUR NORTH AND
ALSO LIKELY ENHANCING TRADE WIND SHOWER ACTIVITY AS WELL. THE
CURRENT SOUTH SWELL IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE RISE TUESDAY...LIKELY
REACHING HIGH SURF ADVISORY LEVELS BY WEDNESDAY. FARRELL

.PHFO......WARNINGS.....NONE
.          WATCHES......NONE
.          ADVISORIES...NONE

The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Honolulu

When: July 8, 12:11 PM HST to 4:30 PM HST
Where: Honolulu County, 3 mi SE of Waialua
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 21.455, -157.961 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Hawaii in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Hawaii, July 2001

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5259806.