State Land Surveyors Are Key to Helping Lahaina Rebuild After 2023 Wildfires

State land surveyors are key to helping Lahaina rebuild after 2023 wildfires

State land surveyors are helping the Lahaina community return to normal as residents and businesses rebuild after the 2023 fires.

After Lahaina burned, an experiment in housing the most vulnerable

On Maui, a test of how fast the government and private companies can work to prop up housing when there are few options, and whether other places will follow.

How Do You Rebuild Community After Wildfire?

Six months after the L.A. fires, Zócalo explores how communities are rebuilding and what our region has learned. When a wildfire burns through a community, the initial concern is identifying what is lost: businesses, homes, landscape. Reports tally the damage in raw numbers—acres burned, buildings destroyed, dollars lost. Similarly, wildfire recovery success is overwhelmingly measured by how closely the post-disaster housing count compares to pr…