Hawaii’s power companies and many nationwide have turned to a tool meant to reduce wildfire risk from active lines on red-flag warning days.

While data predicted that Maui residents would leave after the blazes, many residents that were living in Maui during the fires did not leave the island.

Hundreds of Maui residents have moved out of Hawaiʻi since the August 2023 wildfires, according to estimates released Tuesday by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization.  But three times the number of residents relocated from Lahaina to other parts of Maui as a result of fires,