Gas Line Repair in Holualoa, HI
Holualoa is largely a town without gas: 3% of households use it at all. That makes the buried service line a minority arrangement, and the people who have one worth talking to specifically.
Read this first
Only 3% of homes in Holualoa 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 Holualoa is supplied
A town with little gas still has gas somewhere, and the arrangement matters just as much on the properties that have it. What changes is how many contractors nearby work on it regularly.
That is worth knowing when you are choosing one: ask how much gas work they actually do, not just whether they can.
| Households in Holualoa | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 0% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 3% |
| Electricity | 22% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 0% |
| Wood and everything else | 75% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 1,524 occupied housing units. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly. 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. Holualoa sits 3 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That spread is what a state average hides, and it is why this page carries the town’s own figures rather than inheriting them.
Before anyone digs on the property
Before any digging — a fence post as much as a foundation — call 8-1-1. It is a nationwide toll-free number, it costs nothing, and PHMSA puts the chance of avoiding an incident afterwards at 99 percent.
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
- Kapolei 4% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Ocean View 3% mains gas · 12% tank propane
- Waimanalo 3% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Kailua 3% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Waikoloa 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 Holualoa job, gas or otherwise, is routed from here.
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