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US Wildfire Incidents API - Active Fires, Acres, Containment

Active and historical US wildfires from the national interagency fire system (NIFC WFIGS): name, acres burned, percent contained, discovery date, cause, personnel, cost, state, county, landowner and coordinates. Filter by state, size, containment, radius around a point or discovery date.

$0.16 per 1,000 incidents

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What it returns

Every wildfire reported to the US national interagency fire system, from NIFC's Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS). Official public data, refreshed through the day.

Common uses

Property and insurance risk, utility and logistics alerts, real estate, travel advisories, news and dashboards. Pay per incident returned.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-wildfire-incidents/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
scopestring: current, last24h, yearToDate, allWhich incident set to search. Default: "current".
typeslist of stringsWildfires only by default. Default: ["wildfire"].
statesstringTwo-letter codes, comma separated, e.g. CA,OR,WA
minAcresnumberOnly incidents at least this size.
maxContainmentnumbere.g. 99 to drop fully contained fires.
nearstringPoint of origin within the radius below, e.g. 34.05,-118.24
radiusMilesnumberUsed with Near. Default: 50.
namestringIncident name keyword.
countystringExact county name, e.g. Los Angeles
discoveredSincestringYYYY-MM-DD
sortstring: size, discovered, updated Default: "size".
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-wildfire-incidents/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.16 per 1,000 incidents. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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