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Federal disaster declarations (1953-present, ~70K rows), NFIP flood-insurance claims (~2.7M anonymized claims back to 1973), Public Assistance funded project details (~898K), and IPAWS archived public emergency alerts (~4.8M) from FEMA. Pivot a hurricane disasterNumber to the funded projects awarded for response, or a county to its NFIP claim history. Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

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Provenance

PublisherFEMA OpenFEMA
API basehttps://www.fema.gov/api/open

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

Methods (5)

  • searchDisasterDeclarations

    read

    Federal disaster declarations 1953-present. Filter state, county, incidentType, year, date range.

    One row per designated area. 21 incident types; 3 declaration types.

  • searchNfipClaims

    read

    NFIP flood-insurance claims (~2.7M anonymized since 1973). Filter state, county FIPS, year, zone.

    Use 5-digit county FIPS for tight filters. Refresh is monthly.

  • searchPublicAssistanceProjects

    read

    Public Assistance funded projects. Pivot disasterNumber to projects, damage category and amounts.

    damageCategoryCode A-G or Z. projectStatus is just Active or Ineligible.

  • searchIpawsAlerts

    read

    IPAWS archived public alerts. Filter sender, event type, message type, sent date range.

    Event and severity live in CAP info[]; raw XML is stripped.

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Live dataset row counts and exact enum values for filter columns.