# USDA SNAP Retailer Locator

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/usda-snap/  
**Website:** https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/retailer-locator  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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).

## Kin Score — 23.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.3 |
| 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 (2)

- **USDA SNAP Retailer Locator Retailers API** — Query SNAP retailer location records.
- **USDA SNAP Retailer Locator Service API** — Feature service and layer metadata.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Usda Snap Agentic Access** — 3 operations

## Security (1)

- **Usda Snap Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

SNAP, USDA, Food and Nutrition Administration, FNA, FNS, Retailer Locator, Open Data, ArcGIS, GIS, Government Data, Food Assistance

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