Hawaii’s Growing Risk of Wildfires

Maui faces a long road to recovery from the devastating blazes this week -- Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster since 1960. At least 55 people have died.

Lahaina, the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom for a time before the US annexed the islands in 1898, is still smoldering.

Fire experts in Hawaii knew the land was primed to burn. It hasn’t always been that way; fire risk arrived on the islands relatively recently in Hawaii’s history. That risk is growing, but there’s a lot that communities can do to adapt.