The Lahaina wildfires loom large in Hawaii’s collective memory, as they must when survivors are still living through emotional, financial and, in some cases, physical strife nearly 17 months later. That burden serves as a pressing reminder of our islands’ vulnerability to the ravages of a changing climate. More than a year of inquiry has yielded answers, if not closure, to survivors and their kin, laying bare the simple fact that local and state agencies were ill-prepared for a blaze of such scale and speed.