What you can ask
- “What does FEMA OpenFEMA have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent FEMA OpenFEMA records and put them in a table.”
- “What does FEMA OpenFEMA cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
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
Freshness & coverage
› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
searchDisasterDeclarations
readFederal disaster declarations 1953-present. Filter state, county, incidentType, year, date range.
One row per area. year = federal fiscal year (Oct-Sep), not calendar year.
searchNfipClaims
readNFIP 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
readPublic Assistance funded projects. Pivot disasterNumber to projects, damage category and amounts.
damageCategoryCode A-G or Z. projectStatus is just Active or Ineligible.
searchIpawsAlerts
readIPAWS archived public alerts. Filter sender, event type, message type, sent date range.
Event and severity live in CAP info[]; raw XML is stripped.
getServiceInfo
readDataset row counts as of lastVerified and exact enum values for filter columns.