National Interagency Fire Center website screenshot

National Interagency Fire Center

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is a collaborative effort between multiple federal agencies to address wildfires and other emergency incidents around the United States. NIFC serves as a centralized command center for coordinating resources, personnel, and information to effectively respond to and manage wildfires. NIFC publishes authoritative geospatial data through ArcGIS REST services and its open data portal.

National Interagency Fire Center publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: FeatureServer API, Layer API, and Services API. Tagged areas include Emergency Management, Federal Government, Geospatial, and Wildfire.

National Interagency Fire Center’s developer surface includes developer portal and 5 more developer resources.

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32.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
3 APIs
Emergency ManagementFederal GovernmentGeospatialWildfire

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 32.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

National Interagency Fire Center FeatureServer API

The FeatureServer API from National Interagency Fire Center — 1 operation(s) for featureserver.

National Interagency Fire Center Layer API

The Layer API from National Interagency Fire Center — 2 operation(s) for layer.

National Interagency Fire Center Services API

The Services API from National Interagency Fire Center — 1 operation(s) for services.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

NIFC ArcGIS REST Services API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

National Interagency Fire Center Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

National Interagency Fire Center Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

National Interagency Fire Center Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

National Interagency Fire Center Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

National Interagency Fire Center Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

National Interagency Fire Center Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: national-interagency-fire-center
name: National Interagency Fire Center
description: The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is a collaborative effort between multiple federal agencies to address
  wildfires and other emergency incidents around the United States. NIFC serves as a centralized command center for coordinating
  resources, personnel, and information to effectively respond to and manage wildfires. NIFC publishes authoritative geospatial
  data through ArcGIS REST services and its open data portal.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/national-interagency-fire-center.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-interagency-fire-center/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Emergency Management
- Federal Government
- Geospatial
- Wildfire
apis:
- aid: national-interagency-fire-center:national-interagency-fire-center-featureserver-api
  name: National Interagency Fire Center FeatureServer API
  description: The FeatureServer API from National Interagency Fire Center — 1 operation(s) for featureserver.
  humanURL: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/ArcGIS/rest/services
  tags:
  - FeatureServer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-interagency-fire-center-featureserver-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/ArcGIS/rest/services
- aid: national-interagency-fire-center:national-interagency-fire-center-layer-api
  name: National Interagency Fire Center Layer API
  description: The Layer API from National Interagency Fire Center — 2 operation(s) for layer.
  humanURL: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/ArcGIS/rest/services
  tags:
  - Layer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-interagency-fire-center-layer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/ArcGIS/rest/services
- aid: national-interagency-fire-center:national-interagency-fire-center-services-api
  name: National Interagency Fire Center Services API
  description: The Services API from National Interagency Fire Center — 1 operation(s) for services.
  humanURL: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
  baseURL: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/ArcGIS/rest/services
  tags:
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-interagency-fire-center-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/ArcGIS/rest/services
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/national-interagency-fire-center-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/national-interagency-fire-center-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/national-interagency-fire-center-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-interagency-fire-center
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nifc.gov/
- type: Portal
  url: https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com