Name: OpenFEMA Property Risk
Creator: FEMA OpenFEMA API

API access

Your AI client reaches OpenFEMA Property Risk 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.

Set up OpenFEMA Property Risk in Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor Get every fact on this page as JSON

Where it came from

PublisherFEMA OpenFEMA API

Sourcehttps://www.fema.gov/api/open

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

Docshttps://www.fema.gov/about/openfema

Freshness and coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared

Places coveredUnited States

Time coveredNot declared

CredentialsNo credentials required

What this source cannot tell you

⚠ Anything outside United States. A request past that edge comes back empty rather than approximated.
⚠ Which years it spans, because the covered period is not declared.
⚠ How current a field is, because the refresh schedule is not declared.
⚠ Anything FEMA OpenFEMA API does not publish. ParcelOps returns this source as it stands and never fills a blank field from a different one.

Methods (3)

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

searchDisasterDeclarations

read

Search federal disaster declarations by place, incident, year, date, or declaration type.

Records returneddisaster-declaration

How to get more resultsoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)

FreshnessNear real-time · every 20 minutes

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{2}$"
    },
    "county": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 160
    },
    "incidentType": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "declarationType": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "DR",
        "EM",
        "FM"
      ]
    },
    "year": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1953,
      "maximum": 2200
    },
    "beginDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO date YYYY-MM-DD."
    },
    "endDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO date YYYY-MM-DD."
    },
    "distinctBy": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "disasterNumber"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 1000
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0
    }
  },
  "required": [],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "total": {
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ],
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "declarations": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    },
    "note": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "count",
    "total",
    "offset",
    "limit",
    "declarations",
    "note"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": true
}

⚠ Disaster Declarations Summaries county-level data are incomplete before 1964.
⚠ Historic Fire Management Assistance data are partial.

Use distinctBy=disasterNumber for unique disasters instead of designated areas.

searchNfipClaims

read

Search public NFIP flood claims by state, county, year, date of loss, zone, or occupancy.

Records returnednfip-claim

How to get more resultsoffset (offsetField: offset, limitField: limit)

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{2}$",
      "description": "2-letter state or territory postal code."
    },
    "county": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 120,
      "description": "County, parish, or borough name (\"Orleans\" or \"Orleans Parish\"). The dataset stores no county name, so this is resolved against the Census county-equivalent catalog and the query filters on the resulting 5-digit FIPS. Pass state too unless the name is nationally unique. A name that matches nothing, or matches more than one county, is an error — it never widens to the whole state."
    },
    "countyCode": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^\\d{5}$",
      "description": "5-digit county FIPS (state + county), e.g. \"22071\" for Orleans Parish, LA. Use instead of county when the code is already known."
    },
    "year": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1973,
      "maximum": 2200,
      "description": "Year of loss, e.g. 2017 for Hurricane Harvey."
    },
    "dateOfLossBegin": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO date YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive lower bound on date of loss."
    },
    "dateOfLossEnd": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO date YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive upper bound on date of loss."
    },
    "ratedFloodZone": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 4,
      "description": "NFIP rated flood zone: A, AE, AH, AO, B, C, D, V, VE, X, plus numbered A01-A30 and V01-V15. The literal \"null\" is a real upstream value for pre-FIRM properties with no recorded zone. Full list: getServiceInfo enumValues."
    },
    "occupancyType": {
      "type": "integer",
      "enum": [
        1,
        2,
        3,
        4,
        6
      ],
      "description": "1 single family, 2 two-to-four family, 3 other residential, 4 non-residential, 6 condominium."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 1000
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0
    }
  },
  "required": [],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "total": {
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ],
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "claims": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    },
    "note": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "count",
    "total",
    "offset",
    "limit",
    "claims",
    "note"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": true
}

County name resolves to a 5-digit FIPS; an unmatched name errors, never widens.

getServiceInfo

read

Return dataset versions, cadence, and caveats.

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "required": [],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Where this source is used

Land research
Parcel records, ground conditions, and what reaches the property line, for raw and rural land.
Data center siting
Power, water, transport, airspace, and hazard screening for a site before anyone signs anything.
Commercial real estate
Parcel and assessment records, building programs, and the entity on the other side of the deal.
Residential real estate
The parcel record, the housing programs that touch an address, and the conditions a buyer asks about.
Real estate law
Federal rule text, rulemaking dockets, party records, and the property facts a filing has to state.
Realtors and brokerages
The facts behind a listing, the programs a buyer may qualify for, and your own files in the same place.
Is this property in a flood zone?
What disasters have been declared in this county?

OpenFEMA Property Risk API and MCP server

API access

Where it came from

Freshness and coverage

What this source cannot tell you

Methods (3)

searchDisasterDeclarations

searchNfipClaims

getServiceInfo

Where this source is used