USDA SNAP Retailer Locator

The USDA Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) - renamed from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) on June 1, 2026 - publishes an open, public geospatial API for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Retailer Locator. The data is hosted as an Esri ArcGIS Feature Service (snap_retailer_location_data) rather than a bespoke fns.usda.gov or api.fns.usda.gov endpoint, and is embedded directly in the public retailer locator tool at fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator. It exposes point-in-time location records - name, address, city, state, zip, county, store type, latitude/longitude, and Healthy Incentive Program participation - for every currently authorized SNAP retailer nationwide (roughly a quarter million records as of the review date), queryable anonymously over REST with no API key, in JSON, GeoJSON, or PBF, with CSV/Shapefile/KML export also available through the ArcGIS Hub item page. Data is refreshed on a recurring basis by FNA; the service is read-only (Query only - no write capabilities).

USDA SNAP Retailer Locator publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Retailers API and Service API. Tagged areas include SNAP, USDA, Food and Nutrition Administration, FNA, and FNS.

USDA SNAP Retailer Locator’s developer surface includes documentation and 5 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessOpen
2 APIs
SNAPUSDAFood and Nutrition AdministrationFNAFNSRetailer LocatorOpen DataArcGISGISGovernment DataFood Assistance

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Composite quality — 24.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 13.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
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Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 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
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APIs 2

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

USDA SNAP Retailer Locator Retailers API

Query SNAP retailer location records.

USDA SNAP Retailer Locator Service API

Feature service and layer metadata.

Open Collections 1

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

USDA SNAP Retailer Location Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Usda Snap Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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

Usda Snap Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Usda Snap Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: usda-snap
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name: USDA SNAP Retailer Locator
kind: government
description: The USDA Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) - renamed from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) on June
  1, 2026 - publishes an open, public geospatial API for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Retailer Locator.
  The data is hosted as an Esri ArcGIS Feature Service (snap_retailer_location_data) rather than a bespoke fns.usda.gov or
  api.fns.usda.gov endpoint, and is embedded directly in the public retailer locator tool at fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator.
  It exposes point-in-time location records - name, address, city, state, zip, county, store type, latitude/longitude, and
  Healthy Incentive Program participation - for every currently authorized SNAP retailer nationwide (roughly a quarter million
  records as of the review date), queryable anonymously over REST with no API key, in JSON, GeoJSON, or PBF, with CSV/Shapefile/KML
  export also available through the ArcGIS Hub item page. Data is refreshed on a recurring basis by FNA; the service is read-only
  (Query only - no write capabilities).
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/usda-snap.png
tags:
- SNAP
- USDA
- Food and Nutrition Administration
- FNA
- FNS
- Retailer Locator
- Open Data
- ArcGIS
- GIS
- Government Data
- Food Assistance
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: usda-snap:usda-snap-retailers-api
  name: USDA SNAP Retailer Locator Retailers API
  description: Query SNAP retailer location records.
  humanURL: https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator
  baseURL: https://services1.arcgis.com/RLQu0rK7h4kbsBq5/arcgis/rest/services/snap_retailer_location_data/FeatureServer
  tags:
  - Retailers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usda-snap-retailers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8b260f9a10b0459aa441ad8588c2251c
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://usda-snap-retailers-usda-fns.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/USDA-FNS::snap-retailer-location-data/
- aid: usda-snap:usda-snap-service-api
  name: USDA SNAP Retailer Locator Service API
  description: Feature service and layer metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator
  baseURL: https://services1.arcgis.com/RLQu0rK7h4kbsBq5/arcgis/rest/services/snap_retailer_location_data/FeatureServer
  tags:
  - Service
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usda-snap-service-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8b260f9a10b0459aa441ad8588c2251c
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://usda-snap-retailers-usda-fns.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/USDA-FNS::snap-retailer-location-data/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/usda-snap-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/usda-snap-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/usda-snap-rate-limits.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com