Lahaina Recovery Status Reports

FEMA disaster assistance data (DR-4724) is referenced throughout the thesis. As of early 2025, over 1,500 sites have been cleared and approximately $3 billion in federal aid allocated. The thesis discusses how FEMA established presence within days of the fire, providing emergency shelter, debris removal coordination, and disaster assistance funding. Hotel accommodations were extended repeatedly for roughly 6,700 individuals still without permanent housing as of late 2024. The thesis draws a critical distinction: the federal response performs crisis management but does not perform recovery. FEMA’s mandate ends where long-term housing production, infrastructure redesign, and land use planning begin.

External Links

• FEMA DR-4724 Maui Wildfires