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Community Risk Assessment As designated on the map above, the following table lists the community assets, resources, and values at risk. With fire fighting agencies and landowners,HWMO assessed these resources for relative risk of wildfire and assigned a hazard ranking of low (LOW),moderate (MOD),or High (HIGH) for the following categories: • Fuel Hazards — An evaluation of vegetation conditions within the community and on adjacent lands. • Risk of Wildfire Occurrence — An evaluation of the probability of fire ignition within the community and surrounding lands, based on fuels, weather, topography, likelihood of ignition. • Structural Ignitability- An evaluation of the vulnerability of structures within the community to ignition from firebrands,radiation,and convection. The fourth category,Local Preparedness and Fire Suppression Capacity, describes the capacity of fire suppression resources, proximity to water resources, accessibility and proximity to adequate roads, defensible space, etc. Capacity is assigned a ranking of poor (POOR),moderate (MoD), or excellent (EXCELLENT). The ranking for capacity is inversely proportional to hazard, e.g.poor preparedness and suppression capacity creates a high hazard. RANKED BY RANKED BY HAZARD CAPACITY (POOR CAPACITY= HIGH HAZARD) Community Resource or Fuel Risk of Structural Preparedness OVERALL Structure and Associated Hazard Wildfire Ignitability &Suppression RISK Values at Risk Occurrence Capacity Kapapala * MOD-HIGH HIGH POOR MOD- (no water) HIGH Wood Valley,Pahala * MOD HIGH MOD MOD Pahala to Honu'apo : Sea level to HIGH HIGH HIGH MOD HIGH approx 500 ft elevation(including (strong Sea Mountain and nearby prevailing neighborhoods) tradewinds) Pahala to Na'alehu(including MOD- HIGH HIGH MOD MOD- Cane Haul Road): 500 ft elevation HIGH (history of HIGH to mauka boundary of State forest frequent fires reserve on Cane Haul Road) Agricultural grazing lands and HIGH MOD-HIGH HIGH MOD MOD- associated cultural,economic,and HIGH scenic values Na'alehu-Waiohinu(Na'alehu, HIGH HIGH HIGH POOR-MOD HIGH Waiohinu,Mark Twain Estates, Discovery Harbor) South Point,Ka'alu'alu HIGH HIGH MOD-HIGH POOR MOD- (including South Point Rd) (no water) HIGH Businesses in Pahala and LOW LOW-MOD MOD MOD- MOD associated economic,scenic,and EXCELLENT historical values 17