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Look up official US disaster information from FEMA's open data. Find the federal disasters declared for any state or county since 1953 and what each one unlocked, then follow the money: the rebuilding projects FEMA funded, the grants that went to households, and the work paid for to reduce the damage next time. Check whether a community takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program, how many of its homes carry flood insurance, and what has been paid out there before. Search the archive of public emergency alerts, and see which federal agencies were sent in. Dates come back as plain dates, money in dollars, and FEMA's internal codes as words. No account or API key is required.

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Find disaster declarationsSearch every federally declared disaster since 1953, by state, county, kind of disaster, when it was declared, and which kinds of help it unlocked. FEMA stores a declaration as one row per county; this returns one result per disaster, with the counties it covers listed inside, newest first.

Get disaster detailsEverything FEMA publishes about one disaster: what it was and when, which programs it turned on, every county it covered, and how much has been approved or obligated under each program. FEMA keeps those three things in three separate data sets; this reads all three and returns one answer.

Find public assistance projectsFind the rebuilding work FEMA funded after a disaster (debris removal, roads and bridges, schools, water systems) and what each project cost. Search by disaster, state, county, kind of work or size, largest first, with the totals added up.

Find hazard mitigation projectsFind the work FEMA funded to reduce the damage from the next disaster: buying out flood-prone homes, raising buildings, safe rooms, flood walls, backup generators. Search by state, community, grant program, disaster or funding year. By default only approved and awarded projects are returned, not requests that were turned down or withdrawn.

Get disaster housing assistance for an areaAdd up the housing help FEMA gave households in one area: how many applied, how many were approved, and how much was paid for repairs, rent and other needs. Homeowners and renters are reported separately and together. Narrow it to a county, city, ZIP code or a single disaster.

Check flood insurance statusFind out whether a community takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program, and so whether flood insurance can be bought there at all. Also returns whether it has been suspended, the discount its residents earn through the Community Rating System, and when its flood maps were drawn.

Get flood insurance coverage ratesHow many homes in a county actually carry flood insurance, as a share of all homes and as a share of the homes inside the mapped flood zone. The gap between the two is the usual measure of how exposed a place is when a flood arrives.

Get flood insurance claim historyWhat the National Flood Insurance Program has paid out in one area since 1970: how many claims, how much in total, the average and the largest, a year-by-year breakdown, and the floods and causes behind them. The answer is a summary: a single ZIP code can hold thousands of individual claims, and none of them is the thing being asked about.

Find emergency alertsSearch the archive of public warnings sent through IPAWS, the system behind the alerts on American phones, radio and television: tornado warnings, evacuation orders, child abduction emergencies and the rest. Search by when they went out, what they were about, how severe and how urgent, and the area they covered. Tests and exercises are left out unless you ask for them. This is a historical archive, not a live feed.

Find federal mission assignmentsFind which other federal agencies FEMA sent in for a disaster, what each was asked to do, and what it was paid. This is where the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, Health and Human Services and the rest show up in a disaster response.