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An estimated 11 acres of brush burned in a fire on fallow agricultural land near the Kahului Airport Wednesday morning, May 28, 2025.  The fire was first reported at 10:18 a.m., and was brought under control shortly after at 11:39 a.m.

A brush fire reported off of Kunu Place in Kahului earlier this afternoon was extinguished. Fire officials say the blaze burned an area less than 100 feet by 50 feet in size, and was doused just a few minutes after Engine 1 arrived on scene without any other units assisting.  No damages were reported.

Update: Maui fire officials say crews responded to a small brush fire down in the gulch vicinity of Waiehu Beach Road and Kaʻae Rd.  Maui Fire Department Public Information Officer Chris Stankis tells Maui Now that the fire was contained by initial arriving units. Witnesses reported heavy smoke in the area at around 2:20 p.m.

The Army Corps of Engineers completed its final phase of the federal wildfire response in Kula ahead of schedule last month, with their focus now shifting to West Maui. Volunteers in Kula say there’s more to be done and the remaining cleanup likely rests on the shoulders of residents.

Update(4:21 p.m., July 9, 2023): Pi’ilani Highway is now OPEN in Kīhei. It was closed earlier in the afternoon due to a brush fire between Ohukai Road and Kūlanihākoʻi Street.

Honoapiʻilani Highway is now OPEN in both directions. It was closed for over an hour between 3:20 and 4:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, while crews worked to put out several small brush fires from Māʻalaea to Ukumehame.

(Update 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12, 2019) Maui firefighters were able to fully contain a brush fire in Kīhei that consumed an estimated 270 acres, according to Maui fire officials.  The blaze, which was the largest of three separate fires reported on Sunday afternoon, moved south and mauka and was fanned by 10 to 15 […]

Ninety-nine percent of wildfires in Hawaiʻi are caused by people, both accident and arson

Maui fire crews responded to two small brush fires in Kahului, and five rubbish bin fires in various parts of the island over the New Years holiday.

A structure fire was reported at the garage of a home on Luakaha Circle in Kīhei on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 18, 2016.

Maui fire crews are responding to a brush fire in the Puʻunēnē area of Central Maui. The fire was reported at around 12:40 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016.

Firefighters in South Maui responded to a structure fire at Three’s Bar & Grill in the Kihei Kalama Village complex on Sunday at 5:49 a.m.

Maui firefighters are battling a brush fire near Mile 12 of the Honoapi’ilani Highway in the Ukumehame area of West Maui. The fire was burning an area of brush on the mauka side of the road.

Maui firefighters responded to a report of a fire along the Mokulele Highway on Friday afternoon, May 20, 2016.

The Kahikinui brush fire increased by another 300 acres yesterday after a flare-up Wednesday afternoon jumped firebreaks on the mauka perimeter.

Firefighters continue to battle a large brushfire in the remote and rugged terrain of Kahikinui, with firefighting operations now entering a fourth day. The fire has burned a total of 5,300 acres on the southern slopes of Haleakalā.

Fire officials say the blaze is still actively burning along the northern, mauka edge, where ground crews were utilizing bulldozers to cut a firebreak.

Fire and police personnel began evacuating homes in the Kahikinui Homesteads area downwind of the fire last night.

Maui firefighters responded to a report of smoldering brush on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, at the same site of a previous 25-acre brush fire reported more than two months ago on Nov. 30, 2015.

Maui firefighters doused an early morning brush fire on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, off of the Kahekili Highway in Waiheʻe.