Name: FEMA Flood Zones
Creator: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

API access

Your AI client reaches FEMA Flood Zones through one ParcelOps MCP endpoint, so there is no separate key to hold for it and no per-source client to write. Reaching it takes no credentials of your own.

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Where it came from

PublisherFEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

Sourcehttps://hazards.fema.gov/femaportal/wps/portal/NFHLWMS

API basehttps://hazards.fema.gov/

Docshttps://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/national-flood-hazard-layer

Freshness and coverage

FreshnessScheduled · Follows FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer publication updates; no universal cadence is declared.

Places coveredUnited States where NFHL data is published

Time coveredNot declared

CredentialsNo credentials required

What this source cannot tell you

⚠ Anything outside United States where NFHL data is published. A request past that edge comes back empty rather than approximated.
⚠ Which years it spans, because the covered period is not declared.
⚠ Anything FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer does not publish. ParcelOps returns this source as it stands and never fills a blank field from a different one.
⚠ Flood-zone context is a screening result, not an insurance, engineering, surveying, or regulatory determination.

Methods (3)

A method is one call your agent can make against this source.

queryAtPoint

read

Return FEMA flood zones at a property point.

What you must providelatitudelongitude

Records returnedflood-zone

How to get more resultsnone

Coordinate systemEPSG:4326

FreshnessScheduled (source-level)

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "latitude": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": -90,
      "maximum": 90
    },
    "longitude": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": -180,
      "maximum": 180
    },
    "bufferMeters": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "includeGeometry": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "latitude",
    "longitude"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "kind": {
      "const": "parcelops.public-data"
    },
    "schemaVersion": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "dataset": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "latitude": {
          "type": "number",
          "minimum": -90,
          "maximum": 90
        },
        "longitude": {
          "type": "number",
          "minimum": -180,
          "maximum": 180
        },
        "bufferMeters": {
          "type": "number"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "latitude",
        "longitude",
        "bufferMeters"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "summary": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "matchedRecords": {
          "type": [
            "integer",
            "null"
          ]
        },
        "returnedRecords": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "truncated": {
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "matchedRecords",
        "returnedRecords",
        "truncated"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "records": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    },
    "source": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "caveats": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "kind",
    "schemaVersion",
    "dataset",
    "query",
    "summary",
    "records",
    "source",
    "caveats"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": true
}

⚠ A zero-match answer is not proof the point is outside a Special Flood Hazard Area: NFHL mapping is not published for every community.
⚠ A polygon intersecting the search buffer is not a statement about the parcel; each record carries its own sfhaIndicator.

queryInBbox