PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`searchPublicForests`	AL state forest + nursery polygons (16 parcels: Geneva 7.3K / Choccolocco 4.4K / Little River / Macon / Crawford / Panther Creek / Weogufka / Hauss Nursery / Stauffer / Thorsby / Miller / etc.). Filter forestName substring, minAcres, bbox, near. No county column on this layer, filter by forestName instead.
`searchAerialDetection`	AL aerial insect/disease/storm/infra observations (~26.2K points). Filter typeDetected (SPB=Southern Pine Beetle / IPS / EAB / BMP / Tornado / Fire / Cogongrass / Laurel Wilt Disease / etc.), county (67 Title Case), region (Northeast/Northwest/Southeast/Southwest single-word), fiscalYear, dateFrom/To, minTrees. Returns trees affected, spot count, ground cover, measured area, damage %, project area, work unit.
`searchWildfires`	AL wildfire incidents (~16.1K). Filter county (Title Case), region (North East/North West/South East/South West two-word, different from AerialDetection), cause (accepts '7' or '7 - Arson' or 'Arson'), dateFrom/To, minAcres, activeOnly, bbox. Returns reported/controlled/contained times, fire number, cause, acres, region, work unit name. Filtered to IsWildfire=1.
`searchFireTowers`	AL active fire tower points (44). Filter name, county (Title Case), status (Active/Inactive).
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, record counts (live), max-page caps, all enum values (aerialTypes / wildfireCauses / aerialRegions / wildfireRegions), and §0 probe notes for any of the 4 curated layers.

About

Alabama Forestry Commission data covering state forest property, aerial insect/disease/storm detections, wildfire incidents, and active fire towers. Four curated layers: State Property (16 polygons covering all AL state forests plus 4 nurseries / seed orchards: Geneva 7,278 acres / Choccolocco 4,446 / Little River + Little River Forever Wild Addition 2,856 / Macon 191 / Crawford 81 / Panther Creek 79 / Weogufka 237 / Johnson-Dgerstand 242 / Hauss Nursery 316 / Stauffer Seed Orchard 179 / Thorsby Seed Orchard 180 / Miller Nursery 82 / 4 others); Aerial Detection (~26,238 observation points covering insect/disease/storm/infrastructure tags from 2011-2026 with TypeDetected distinct values: SPB=Southern Pine Beetle 18,863 / Other Type 2,522 / BMP=Best Management Practice violation 1,462 / Tree Stand 739 / Tornado 735 / IPS=Ips beetles 596 / House 387 / Gate 181 / Cemetery 157 / Building 115 / Other Aerial 103 / EAB=Emerald Ash Borer 13 / Cogongrass 11 / Laurel Wilt Disease 30 / Needle Blight 28 / Sawfly 2 / Fire 196 / Straight Line Winds 3 / Well 45 / Parking 27 / Water Source 15 / Control Burn 5; Region single-word: Northwest 9,886 / Northeast 7,618 / Southwest 5,909 / Southeast 2,825); Wildfire Reports (~16,142 incidents from FY 2011 onwards, filtered to IsWildfire=1; Cause distinct values: 5 - Debris Burning 6,761 / 9 - Miscellaneous 5,059 / 7 - Arson 2,518 / 2 - Equipment Use 1,195 / 1 - Lightning 151 / 6 - Railroad 128 / 4 - Campfire 107 / 3 - Smoking 106 / 8 - Children 83; Region two-word: North East 4,797 / South West 4,190 / South East 3,860 / North West 3,295); Fire Towers (44 active tower points). Section 0 surprises: the agency-published Wildfire and BurnPermits datasets are uninitialized (zero rows exposed publicly), so wildfires are surfaced via an alternate fire-incident view that returns the same 16K records. The state-property service exposes only a subset of its advertised layers, so the handler hard-codes the working polygon layer. The fire-tower service likewise exposes only a single layer. Region values differ between layers: AerialDetection uses single-word labels (Northeast/Northwest/Southeast/Southwest) while Wildfire uses two-word labels (North East/North West/South East/South West). The handler does not normalize across layers, so the user passes the right form for each method. Cause uses leading-digit codes upstream; the handler accepts the full label, just the digit ('7'), or just the tail ('Arson') and resolves to '7 - Arson'. AerialDetection County is Title Case (Mobile/Tuscaloosa/Jefferson, 67 counties); Wildfire County matches identically. No setup needed. Last verified live 2026-05-08.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use, no setup needed.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to AL Forestry Commission.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and enable AL Forestry Commission with the toggle, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call searchPublicForests with minAcres: 1000 for AL's largest state forests, or searchAerialDetection with typeDetected: 'SPB' and county: 'Mobile' and fiscalYear: '2024' for southern pine beetle observations in Mobile County last fiscal year, or searchWildfires with cause: '7' (Arson) and minAcres: 100 and dateFrom: '2023-01-01' for large arson fires since 2023.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
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Start using
Your AL Forestry Commission connector is ready to use in Claude.