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United States Fire Administration

The United States Fire Administration (USFA) is a government agency under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that is responsible for providing leadership and support to fire departments across the country. The USFA works to improve fire prevention and safety by disseminating training and education programs, conducting research on fire-related issues, and developing national fire prevention initiatives. USFA manages the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and the National Fire Academy (NFA). Fire incident data is accessible through the OpenFEMA API platform at www.fema.gov/api/open.

United States Fire Administration publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Datasets API and Disaster Declarations API. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Fire Safety, Emergency Management, Public Safety, and FEMA.

The United States Fire Administration catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

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36.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
2 APIs
Federal GovernmentFire SafetyEmergency ManagementPublic SafetyFEMA

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Composite quality — 36.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 2.5 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · 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 7 / 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 2

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

United States Fire Administration Datasets API

OpenFEMA dataset metadata

United States Fire Administration Disaster Declarations API

FEMA disaster declaration data

Open Collections 1

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

OpenFEMA Fire Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

United States Fire Administration Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

United States Fire Administration Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

United States Fire Administration Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

United States Fire Administration Context

3 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

United States Fire Administration API Rules

7 rules · 2 errors 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

United States Fire Administration API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

FEMA Disaster Declaration

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NFIRS Fire Incident

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Usfa Disaster Declaration Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Openfema Get Disaster Declarations Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Openfema List Datasets Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

United States Fire Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

United States Fire Administration Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: united-states-fire-administration
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-states-fire-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/united-states-fire-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/united-states-fire-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usfire
apis:
- aid: united-states-fire-administration:united-states-fire-administration-datasets-api
  name: United States Fire Administration Datasets API
  description: OpenFEMA dataset metadata
  humanURL: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/api
  baseURL: https://www.fema.gov/api/open
  tags:
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/united-states-fire-administration-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/api
  - type: Portal
    url: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/developer-resources
  - type: DataSets
    url: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/data-sets
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-states-fire-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfema-fire-data-rules.yml
- aid: united-states-fire-administration:united-states-fire-administration-disaster-declarations-api
  name: United States Fire Administration Disaster Declarations API
  description: FEMA disaster declaration data
  humanURL: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/api
  baseURL: https://www.fema.gov/api/open
  tags:
  - Disaster Declarations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/united-states-fire-administration-disaster-declarations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/api
  - type: Portal
    url: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/developer-resources
  - type: DataSets
    url: https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/data-sets
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-states-fire-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfema-fire-data-rules.yml
name: United States Fire Administration
tags:
- Federal Government
- Fire Safety
- Emergency Management
- Public Safety
- FEMA
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/united-states-fire-administration.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consumer
description: The United States Fire Administration (USFA) is a government agency under the Federal Emergency Management Agency
  (FEMA) that is responsible for providing leadership and support to fire departments across the country. The USFA works to
  improve fire prevention and safety by disseminating training and education programs, conducting research on fire-related
  issues, and developing national fire prevention initiatives. USFA manages the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)
  and the National Fire Academy (NFA). Fire incident data is accessible through the OpenFEMA API platform at www.fema.gov/api/open.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'