Puna, Hawaii
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Puna is one of the 9 districts of Hawaii County on the Island of Hawaiʻi. It is located on the windward side of the island and shares borders with South Hilo district in the north and Kaʻū district in the west. With a size of just under 320,000 acres (1,300 km2) or 500 sq. miles, Puna is slightly smaller than the island of Kauaʻi.
Collapse in the crater of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, creating an ash plume (May 3, 2018)
Eruption in the Leilani Estates subdivision (May 3, 2018)
Lava from a fissure slowly advanced to the northeast on Hoʻokāpu Street in Leilani Estates subdivision (May 5, 2018)
ʻŌhiʻā lehua is the predominant endemic tree found in Puna.
Puʻu ʻŌʻō
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Puʻu ʻŌʻō is a volcanic cone on the eastern rift zone of Kīlauea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. The eruption that created Puʻu ʻŌʻō began on January 3, 1983, and continued nearly continuously until April 30, 2018, making it the longest-lived rift-zone eruption of the last two centuries.
View at dusk, June 1983
Aerial view of Puʻu ʻŌʻō taken on August 30, 1990
Aerial view of Puʻu ʻŌʻō taken on September 10, 2007
Lava from the Puʻu ʻŌʻō cinder cone has flowed 14 miles into the town of Pāhoa. The lava has breached the boundary of the Pāhoa Transfer Station.