![]() ![]() The drought intensity scale is composed of five levels: D0, D1, D2, D3, and D4. ![]() Drought Monitor, a service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, showed a spike this past summer in areas of Hawai‘i categorized as D2. Hawaiʻi has seen a spike in drought intensity since 2016, especially during the summers. Thirty-one individual fires in 2019 engulfed 32,124 acres of forest and brushland – a combined area almost as large as the island of Niʻihau. You have to go back to 20 to find years with comparable acreage ravaged by forest and brushland fires in Hawai‘i, according to annual figures provided by state Data Books. Fires burned more than 30,000 acres of forest and brushland in both 20 – far more than any other year in more than a decade, according to the latest State of Hawaiʻi Data Book. ![]()
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