Data Sources & APIs

This system aggregates real-time emergency information from the following public APIs and dispatch feeds to power the live heatmap and voice information line.

  • National Weather Service (NWS)

    Weather & Fire Warnings

    Provides live severe weather warnings, red flag fire conditions, flood watches, and official safety instructions for any searched location.

    https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active

  • USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

    Seismic Activity

    Supplies real-time earthquake data including magnitude, epicenter coordinates, depth, and estimated impact radius around the target area.

    https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query

  • NASA EONET

    Wildfires & Natural Disasters

    Tracks active large-scale natural hazards such as wildfires, severe storms, and flooding events observed by NASA Earth Observatory.

    https://eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/v3/events

  • Local 911 CAD & Municipal Dispatch

    Local Incidents & Utilities

    Aggregates local Fire, EMS, Highway Patrol, and utility outage dispatches to display active neighborhood-level hazards on the heatmap and voice line.

    /api/emergency-info

  • OpenStreetMap (Photon & Nominatim)

    Geocoding & Location Search

    Converts searched cities, neighborhoods, landmarks, and spoken caller locations into geographic coordinates to load local emergency data.

    https://photon.komoot.io/api