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Openfema Get Disaster Declarations Example

Federal GovernmentFire SafetyEmergency ManagementPublic SafetyFEMA

Openfema Get Disaster Declarations Example is an example object payload from United States Fire Administration, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

operationIdrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "operationId": "getDisasterDeclarations",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v1/FemaWebDisasterDeclarations",
    "parameters": {
      "$filter": "incidentType eq 'Fire'",
      "$top": 5,
      "$orderby": "declarationDate desc",
      "$format": "json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "contentType": "application/json",
    "body": {
      "FemaWebDisasterDeclarations": [
        {
          "disasterNumber": 4720,
          "declarationType": "FM",
          "declarationTitle": "MAUI WILDFIRES",
          "state": "HI",
          "declarationDate": "2023-08-10T00:00:00.000Z",
          "incidentType": "Fire",
          "incidentBeginDate": "2023-08-08T00:00:00.000Z",
          "incidentEndDate": "2023-08-11T00:00:00.000Z",
          "fipsStateCode": "15",
          "fipsCountyCode": "009",
          "designatedArea": "Maui (County)"
        },
        {
          "disasterNumber": 4699,
          "declarationType": "DR",
          "declarationTitle": "WILDFIRES",
          "state": "NM",
          "declarationDate": "2022-05-05T00:00:00.000Z",
          "incidentType": "Fire",
          "incidentBeginDate": "2022-04-06T00:00:00.000Z",
          "incidentEndDate": "2022-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
          "fipsStateCode": "35",
          "fipsCountyCode": "007",
          "designatedArea": "Colfax (County)"
        }
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "skip": 0,
        "top": 5,
        "count": null,
        "filter": "incidentType eq 'Fire'",
        "format": "json",
        "orderby": "declarationDate desc",
        "runDate": "2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    }
  }
}