page_title: Pahoa, Hawaii
section_title: 2014 lava flow
hierarchical_section_title: Pahoa, Hawaii / 2014 lava flow
caption_attribution_description: English: A map showing the flow direction of the June 27th Lava Flow
context_page_description: Pahoa is a census-designated place in the District of Puna in Hawai‘i County, Hawai‘i, United States. The population was 962 at the 2000 census. The population dropped by 1.8% to 945 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: In June 2014, a lava flow dubbed the June 27th flow started running from a vent in the Puʻu ʻŌʻō cone in a northeast direction towards the villages of Kaohe Homesteads and Pahoa.
  In early September it appeared that the lava flow was en route to the small community of Kaohe Homesteads.  Community leaders and state officials began to draw up plans for evacuations and the mayor signed an emergency proclamation as the flow approached to within 0.8 miles, a distance it was expected to cover in approximately a week.  On September 13, a release from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory stated that the flow had begun to shift away from the subdivision as it had interacted with both the cracks and down-dropped blocks within the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea volcano and a natural valley that leveled away from Kaohe Homesteads.
  The lava flow then advanced on Pahoa.  On October 25, the flow had reached the town's recycling facility, which was closed and temporarily relocated as a result.  The flow was quickly advancing on a nearby cemetery and triggered the first series of evacuations. On November 10, the flow claimed one home.
  Officials feared that the lava would cover Hawaii Route 130, the only route in and out of Pahoa and of the entire lower Puna section of the island.  On October 22, The National Park Service announced  that it would help state and county officials create an emergency route along 8 miles of the buried Chain of Craters Road in order to help Puna residents who would potentially lose access to the rest of Hawaiʻi.  Construction of the Chain of Craters alternate route began by making a path over a wall of lava rock covering the road in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The eruption eventually stopped short of Route 130, and work on the emergency route was called off in November 2014.
caption: A map showing the flow direction of the June 25th Lava Flow (as of November 24, 2014)
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