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Data & feeds

A live disaster-events JSON feed plus statistics datasets as JSON and CSV — free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0).

What's here

01 Live events JSON 02 Statistics — JSON / CSV 03 Sitemaps & llms.txt
Browse the statistics hub →

Live feed

Events feed — JSON

Currently-active US disaster events plus events that ended within the last 90 days (up to 200, newest first), from official NWS, NHC, NASA EONET and FEMA feeds — the same events, severity floor and update log as the live board.

Endpoint

GET https://disasterstatus.com/api/events.json

The response wraps events with site, attribution, docs, generatedAt and count. Each event carries:

Field Meaning
slug Stable event id; the key of the event page URL
url Absolute URL of the human-readable event page
name Event name (e.g. a named fire or storm)
headline Source headline, when it adds detail beyond the name (else null)
active true while the event is live in its official source feed
significance Normalized severity: moderate | high | severe
primaryDamage Primary damage type (water, fire, mold, storm, sewage), or null
damageTypes All damage-type tags for the event
metro Covered metro { slug, name, state }, or null for national/unscoped events
centroid [lat, lon] marker anchor, or null when the source gave no geometry
onset ISO start time, when the source provides one
ends ISO end time, when the source provides one
lastUpdated ISO time of the newest signal — feed sighting or official update
updatesCount Number of dated official updates in the event log
latestUpdate Newest update { title, publishedAt, sourceLabel }, when present

Responses are cached ~5 minutes. If the live database is briefly unavailable the endpoint returns HTTP 503 with a JSON error body — it never serves fabricated or silently stale events.

Datasets

Statistics datasets — JSON & CSV

Every table behind the US property-damage statistics pages, in two formats at the same key:

GET https://disasterstatus.com/statistics/data/<dataset>.json  ·  GET https://disasterstatus.com/statistics/data/<dataset>.csv

JSON responses return { dataset, meta, rows } — rows are objects keyed by column name, and meta names the primary source, its URL, the refresh time and the attribution terms. CSV returns the same table with a header row.

FEMA disaster declarations

Re-aggregated daily at 07:41 UTC from FEMA OpenFEMA.

Charted & explained: Disaster declarations →

NFIP flood-insurance claims

Re-aggregated monthly (the 3rd, 09:07 UTC) from the full OpenFEMA claims dataset.

Charted & explained: Water damage & flood claims →

Severe weather & tornadoes

Committed dated snapshot of NOAA NCEI Storm Events (NCEI publishes with a 2–4 month lag); each response reports its refreshedAt.

  • severe-tornado-by-year JSON · CSV
  • severe-tornado-by-month JSON · CSV
  • severe-events-by-type JSON · CSV
  • severe-tornado-by-state JSON · CSV
  • severe-by-state-type JSON · CSV

Charted & explained: Severe weather & tornadoes →

US hurricane landfalls

Committed dated snapshot of the NOAA NHC/AOML landfall record (revised roughly annually).

Charted & explained: Hurricane landfalls →

Fire & wildfire

Committed dated snapshot (NIFC wildland-fire statistics + FEMA FMAG declarations).

  • wildfires-by-year JSON · CSV
  • fmag-declarations-by-year JSON · CSV
  • fmag-declarations-by-state JSON · CSV

Charted & explained: Fire & wildfire →

FEMA disaster assistance (IHP)

Committed dated snapshot of OpenFEMA Individual Assistance housing-aid data.

Charted & explained: FEMA disaster assistance →

Per-state declaration timelines follow the pattern state-<abbr>-declarations (50 states + DC), e.g. state-tx-declarations.json · state-tx-declarations.csv.

Discovery

Sitemaps & llms.txt

Sitemaps

One sitemap index, /sitemap.xml (referenced from /robots.txt), covers the whole crawlable surface through three child sitemaps:

llms.txt

A curated map of what's worth citing on this site — the live feeds, the statistics pages and how to attribute them — for AI assistants and their crawlers (which our robots.txt explicitly allows).

/llms.txt

Update cadence

  • Events: ingested hourly from NWS, NHC and NASA EONET; the feed itself is cached ~5 minutes, so a new event appears within about an hour of its official issuance.
  • FEMA declaration statistics: re-aggregated daily (07:41 UTC) from OpenFEMA.
  • NFIP flood-claim statistics: re-aggregated monthly (the 3rd, 09:07 UTC) — the source itself refreshes about monthly.
  • Severe weather, hurricanes, fire and FEMA-aid statistics: committed, dated snapshots rebuilt when their sources publish; every response carries its own refreshedAt, so trust the data, not this page, for freshness.

Attribution & citing

All feeds and datasets on this page are free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0): credit DisasterStatus and link to disasterstatus.com. The data is derived from FEMA, NOAA and NWS public sources — the underlying government datasets are US public domain, and every response names its primary source. Full methodology lives on the statistics compendium.

DisasterStatus is a free referral service that connects homeowners with vetted, independent local restoration pros — not a restoration company, and not the government source of this data. For official warnings and instructions, always follow the linked primary sources (NWS, NHC, FEMA) directly.

Cite these feeds

DisasterStatus, "Data & feeds". https://disasterstatus.com/data