Drought — Big Island Interior, Hawaii

2025-07-01 to 2025-07-31 · Big Island Interior, Hawaii

Event narrative

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience's Cooperative Extension reported poor range conditions across the Big Island, with ranchers providing marginal feed with supplemental feeding. There were also persistent water shortages and ranchers have reportedly had to haul water at a great expense. Many ranchers reported not seeing conditions similar to this since near 2008. There were reportedly twenty five percent water restrictions in place in the Hakalau area.

Wider weather episode

Below average rainfall allowed severe to extreme drought conditions to continue across the Big Island, especially the Hamakua district.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1282299. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.