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The County is activating its Emergency Operation Center as much of the Big Island is already under a fire weather watch.
Dry fuels combined with strong and gusty trade winds and low humidity will produce critical fire weather conditions tonight through Thursday afternoon in leeward areas of the Hawaiian Islands, including the Big Island.
The alert, prompted by dry vegetation and strong and gusty trade winds and low humidity, is expected to be in effect until 6 p.m. today.
Communities on the Island of Hawai‘i continue to recover from Kīlauea’s 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption and summit collapse as does the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). During the events of 2018, HVO instruments were lost, monitoring infrastructure was impacted, and HVO staff had to evacuate the observatory, which was damaged beyond repair.