# OpenFEMA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/fema/  
**Website:** https://www.fema.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

OpenFEMA is FEMA's open data platform, publishing free, public, machine-readable datasets on disaster declarations, public assistance grants, hazard mitigation projects, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and emergency alerting through a read-only RESTful API. The API uses OData-style query string parameters ($filter, $select, $top, $skip, $orderby) over individually versioned dataset endpoints, requires no API key or subscription, and returns JSON, CSV, or Parquet.

## Kin Score — 25.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.3 from 25.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 20.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **OpenFEMA Catalog API** — Self-describing metadata - dataset list and data dictionaries.
- **OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations API** — Federally declared disasters.
- **OpenFEMA Hazard Mitigation API** — Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant program data.
- **OpenFEMA IPAWS API** — Integrated Public Alert and Warning System archived alerts.
- **OpenFEMA NFIP API** — National Flood Insurance Program redacted policy and claims data.
- **OpenFEMA Public Assistance API** — FEMA Public Assistance (PA) grant program data.
- **OpenFEMA Web Disaster Summaries API** — Per-disaster financial summary totals from NEMIS.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Fema Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (1)

- **Fema Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Government, Open Data, Emergency Management, Disaster, FEMA, Public Safety

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/fema/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.