Settings and about
Pick your island and text size, turn on warnings, and see where Kilo's information comes from.
Your island
Everything in Kilo is about this island.
Text size
Makes every word in Kilo bigger. Your phone's own text setting still works too.
Warnings on this phone
Get shelter openings, evacuations and warnings for Hawaiʻi Island as notifications. The whole message is in the notification, so you can read it with no signal.
Your county's own alerts
Hawaiʻi County: Text HAWAIIALERTS to 888777.. These come straight from the county, even when Kilo is down.
Open the county's alerts pageAdd Kilo to your Home Screen
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Where the information comes from
Every item says who reported it. Nothing is written by a computer.
- National Weather Serviceweather, surf, warnings
- Hawaiʻi County Civil Defenseshelters, road closures, schools
- State highways departmentroadwork
- USGSearthquakes
- USGS Hawaiian Volcano ObservatoryKīlauea and Mauna Loa
- Pacific Tsunami Warning Centertsunami
- Central Pacific Hurricane Centerstorms
- Hawaiʻi Department of Health and AirNowair and vog
- Honolulu 911 dispatchcrashes on Oʻahu
- Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS Program and USGSmap roads, coastlines, and elevation
- Neighborstheir own reports, on the Reports page
Surf heights are the local Hawaiian scale; the face of the wave looks about twice as big.
What Kilo is not
Not an emergency service. Not part of any government. In an emergency call 911. When Civil Defense says something different, do what Civil Defense says.
What Kilo will never do
Show ads. Ask you to sign up. Sell or share where you are. Let a computer write an alert. Make a neighbor's post look official.
Made in Hilo. Free, no ads, no account.
Settings and about