Gas Line Repair in Haiku, HI
In Haiku, 8% of homes use gas of any sort. Most properties here have no service line and no meter, and the ones that do are the exception.
Read this first
Only 8% of homes in Haiku use gas for heat. That makes a gas line the exception rather than the rule, and the ones that exist are usually tank supplies owned on the property instead of utility service lines ending at a meter.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else, and do not call us — we are a referral service, not an emergency line. The full list, in order.
How Haiku is supplied
Low local gas use does not make a buried line safer or a leak less serious. It makes the subject less familiar, which is a different problem and arguably a worse one.
The emergency response does not vary at all: leave on foot, no phones or switches inside, call 911 from elsewhere.
| Households in Haiku | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 1% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 6% |
| Electricity | 21% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 71% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 4,076 occupied housing units. Read it as fuel rather than as plumbing. The share on utility gas is how many houses burn it, which is the nearest thing published to how many have a service line. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Hawaii as a whole, 3% of households are on mains gas and 1% on tank propane. Haiku sits 2 points below the state on mains and 5 points above it on propane. That distance from the state average is the whole argument for publishing a town figure at all.
Before anyone digs on the property
A locate before digging is free, and PHMSA is unambiguous about the value — excavation damage is the leading cause of pipeline incidents and calling 8-1-1 first avoids one 99 times in a hundred. The gap to ask about is private buried line, which a standard locate may not mark.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask which side of the meter the work is on before anything else. On the utility side it may not be a contractor job at all, and a quote that has not established that has not established whose problem it is.
Other Hawaii towns we route in
- Waikoloa 1% mains gas · 0% tank propane
- Ocean View 3% mains gas · 12% tank propane
- Wahiawa 3% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Haleiwa under 1% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Laie under 1% mains gas · 0% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Hawaii
Hawaii licenses are issued by the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Professional and Vocational Licensing, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Any Haiku job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
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