What you can ask
- “What does AL Forestry Commission have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent AL Forestry Commission records and put them in a table.”
- “What does AL Forestry Commission cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
Alabama Forestry Commission — state forest property, aerial insect/disease/storm detection, wildfire incidents, fire towers. - searchPublicForests ⭐ 16 state forest + nursery polygons (Geneva 7.3K acres / Choccolocco 4.4K / Macon / Crawford / Hauss Nursery / Stauffer Seed Orchard) - searchAerialDetection ⭐ 26,238 aerial detection observations (SPB 18,863 / IPS 596 / Tornado 735 / EAB 13) - searchWildfires ⭐ 16,142 wildfire incidents with cause/region/agency - searchFireTowers 44 fire tower points (status In Use / Not Used / VFD / 911) §0: Region: either spelling works (Northeast or North East). Cause uses leading-digit codes; handler accepts "7", "7 - Arson", or "Arson".
Connector ID al-forestry
Provenance
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchPublicForests
readAL state forest + nursery polygons (16 parcels covering Geneva/Choccolocco/Macon/Hauss/Stauffer).
No county column — filter by forestName substring.
searchAerialDetection
readAL aerial detections (~26.2K). Filter typeDetected (SPB/IPS/EAB/Tornado), county, region, year.
Region Northeast/Southwest (either spelling); county any case.
searchWildfires
readAL wildfires (~16.1K). Filter county, region, cause, dates, minAcres, activeOnly.
Region North East or Northeast. cause: "7" → "7 - Arson"; unknown cause fails.
searchFireTowers
readAL fire towers (44 points). Filter name, county, status (In Use/Not Used/VFD/911).
getServiceInfo
readAlabama Forestry service catalog: layer schemas, record counts, page caps, enum values.
