Fema Rate Limits
OpenFEMA does not publish a per-account or per-IP request-rate limit (no RPM/RPD ceiling, no API key or quota system). Instead, load is bounded per call by a record-count limit: each request returns at most 1,000 records by default, and at most 10,000 records even when $top is raised to its maximum. Clients page through larger result sets with $skip (and optionally $count to learn the total), or use the BETA $allrecords=true parameter to force a single full-result download bypassing the 10,000-row ceiling. For very large exports, FEMA recommends CSV or Parquet over JSON to keep payload size manageable.
Fema Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for OpenFEMA on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring records and n/a.
The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Government, Open Data, Rate Limiting, Pagination, and Record Limits.
Limits
Policies
Sources
- https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/api
- https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/working-with-large-data-sets
- https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/developer-resources
- https://www.fema.gov/about/openfema/changelog
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