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Floods in Hawaii

Property owners in Hawaii have filed 6,183 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $167 million paid.

  • 6,183flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $167Mpaid on those claims
  • 1992most claims in one year, 1,094
  • 35thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Hawaii per year 1978: 44 1979: 63 1980: 215 1981: 48 1982: 259 1983: 89 1984: 47 1985: 80 1986: 120 1987: 129 1988: 171 1989: 53 1990: 38 1991: 248 1992: 1,094 1,094 1993: 41 1994: 64 1995: 97 1996: 163 1997: 33 1998: 13 1999: 17 2000: 81 2001: 31 2002: 48 2003: 92 2004: 97 2005: 44 2006: 200 2007: 93 2008: 214 2009: 25 2010: 47 2011: 230 2012: 114 2013: 17 2014: 70 2015: 43 2016: 96 2017: 47 2018: 518 2019: 36 2020: 52 2021: 202 2022: 36 2023: 36 2024: 90 2025: 39 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Mar 13, 2006Flash FloodKauai7—

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Hawaii
Honolulu County3,069
Kauai County1,495
Maui County819
Hawaii County800

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).