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USFS Site Wildfire Risk API and MCP server

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Point sampling of four official Wildfire Risk to Communities visualization metrics.

USFS Site Wildfire Risk is published by USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities image services and covers United States where the four WRC visualization services publish a pixel.

It is a fixed release and changes only when the publisher issues a new one.

Last verified . That is when these facts were last rebuilt from the ParcelOps source registry, not when USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities image services last refreshed the data itself.

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API access

Your AI client reaches USFS Site Wildfire 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 USFS Site Wildfire Risk in Claude, ChatGPT, or CursorGet every fact on this page as JSON

Where it came from

PublisherUSFS Wildfire Risk to Communities image services
Sourcehttps://imagery.geoplatform.gov/iipp/rest/services/Fire_Aviation
API basehttps://imagery.geoplatform.gov/iipp/rest/services/Fire_Aviation
Docshttps://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/wildfire-risk-communities

Freshness and coverage

FreshnessStatic · Pinned to the migrated official visualization services and their published modeled-condition vintages.
Places coveredUnited States where the four WRC visualization services publish a pixel
Time coveredNot declared
CredentialsNo credentials required

What this source cannot tell you

  • ⚠ Anything outside United States where the four WRC visualization services publish a pixel. A request past that edge comes back empty rather than approximated.
  • ⚠ Which years it spans, because the covered period is not declared.
  • ⚠ Anything USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities image services does not publish. ParcelOps returns this source as it stands and never fills a blank field from a different one.
  • ⚠ These are national-scale visualization values, not locally calibrated individual-property risk determinations.
  • ⚠ A value of zero is preserved as a reported value, not treated as missing or proof of no wildfire risk.
  • ⚠ Use current local fire, mitigation, insurance, emergency, and land-management sources for decisions.

Methods (2)

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

  • getWildfireRiskAtPoint

    read

    Sample four official wildfire-risk visualization metrics at one point.

    What you must providelatitudelongitude
    Records returnedwildfire-risk-raster-sample
    How to get more resultsnone
    Coordinate systemEPSG:4326
    FreshnessStatic (source-level)
    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "latitude": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": -90,
      "maximum": 90
    },
    "longitude": {
      "type": "number",
      "minimum": -180,
      "maximum": 180
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "latitude",
    "longitude"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    • ⚠ National visualization context only; not an individual-building risk determination.

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Return exact services, modeled conditions, value semantics, and property-use limitations.

    FreshnessStatic (source-level)
    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "required": [],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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