Home Assessments
Wildfire Home Assessments
Learn how a free educational wildfire home assessment can help you better prepare your home and property for wildfire.
To request a home assessment, choose the option below based on where your home is located:
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The County of Kauaʻi, in partnership with the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO), is offering free, one-hour educational wildfire home assessments for residential properties through December 31, 2026.
During the assessment, trained County home assessors will walk around your property with you, identify wildfire risks, answer your questions, and provide personalized recommendations to help you better prepare your home for wildfire. This is a voluntary educational service, not a code inspection.
Scheduling InformationAssessment appointments are available:
Monday–Friday: 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., and 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.
Only available appointment times are displayed in the online booking calendar. If a date or time is not shown, that appointment has already been reserved. If none of the available appointment times work for your schedule, please contact the Planning Department at 808-241-4050 or planningdepartment@kauai.gov to discuss alternate scheduling options.
Before You SchedulePlease schedule only if you intend to keep your appointment, as assessment appointments are limited.
Enter a phone number and email where you can be reached. Your email will be used to send your personalized assessment report.
After booking, you'll receive an automatic confirmation email, followed by an email from your assigned home assessor.
Ready to get started? Click the link below to schedule your free wildfire home assessment.
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HWMO’s volunteer-based Wildfire Home Assessment Program serves homeowners on Oʻahu, Maui Nui, and Hawaiʻi Island.
Assessment requests are temporarily paused while we complete assessor training and work through previously submitted requests. We expect to reopen the request form once current assessments are completed.
Mahalo for your patience as we strengthen and expand the program and prepare to reopen requests.
Click here to request an assessment.
What is a wildfire home assessment?
A home assessment is a review of the vulnerability of one's house and landscape to wildfire and ember-ignition.
Your home assessment report will provide you with a roadmap to a more wildfire-ready family, home, and property.
HWMO will use this information to determine what incentive programs might be developed to help homeowners complete more of these ignition-resisting improvements in the future.
Who conducts the wildfire home assessments?
Home assessments are conducted by trained local resident volunteers, volunteers from nonprofit organizations, and government employees. All home assessors have completed the required training and Hawaiʻi criminal background checks.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer Wildfire Home Assessor, please add your information to our waitlist.
About Wildfire Home Risk Assessments
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The Wildfire Home Risk Assessor Program is part of a Community Wildfire Ambassador program that is operated by Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization to build the capacity of community members to evaluate the wildfire risk of individual homes and properties within their communities.
Volunteer home assessors may be available to perform free home assessments for homeowners living in their communities. They will also serve as wildfire information ambassadors to their friends and neighbors, and (if applicable) to their community’s Firewise committee.
Please visit our Firewise Program page for a list of Firewise® communities in Hawaiʻi.
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Home assessments are FREE (until grant funds are exhausted) to Hawaiʻi homeowners living in an area where a trained home assessor is available.
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Home assessments are only offered to homeowners for single-standing residential homes or duplexes in areas with an available home assessor.
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Home assessments are conducted by trained local resident volunteers, volunteers from nonprofit organizations, and government employees. All home assessors have completed the required training and Hawaiʻi criminal background checks.
If you're interested in being trained to become a Wildfire Home Assessor, please add your information to our waitlist (click here).
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This program is subject to funding availability. Currently, this program is made possible by various grants, including those from the Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
