Tim Arango and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

The fire that leveled Lahaina burned so hot that officials said some victims’ bodies were turned to ash and may never be recovered or identified.

That reality has complicated efforts to figure out how many were killed and how many went missing after the inferno on Aug. 8.

On Thursday, Maui officials issued a list of 388 names of those still considered missing, in an effort to slim down the number of people whose whereabouts were unknown — a number that at one point was beyond 2,000. Ever since its release, friends, relatives and internet sleuths have anxiously scoured the list.

But some were surprised to find their own names there.

“No reason that I should have been on it,” Renee Vachow, a Lahaina resident, wrote in a text message to The New