Currently Tukuraki is based precariously under a steep mountain. It’s vulnerable location has meant it has suffered from a wave of disasters in recent times.
In January 2012, a landslide plunged through the community killing a family of four and burying more than 50 percent of the village area after a week of heavy rain in the western division triggered the slip. The landslide also wiped out the village access road, fresh water resources, and homes.
Tukuraki village was then struck by disaster again within 12 months as Cyclone Evan, a Category 4 Tropical Cyclone, hit the community in December 2012. This cyclone destroyed what remained and what had been salvaged from the landslide, again destroying crops and damaging repaired infrastructure.