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FEMA Disaster Declarations

Every federally-declared disaster since 1953, DR (major disaster), EM (emergency), and FM (fire management) declarations, one record per designated county, with the assistance programs activated. The event dataset for insurance, construction, utilities, and muni-credit questions, and the front-end of federal rebuild money.

EndpointGET /v1/fema-disasters

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What it returns

public_assistance=true is the infrastructure-rebuild-money flag; a single disaster spans many county records. See the live example below for the full field set.

Filters

id	Direct lookup: '{declarationString}-{fips}' (e.g., 'DR-4728-CA-06037').
fema_declaration_string	Exact declaration (e.g., 'DR-4728-CA'), returns every designated county for that event.
disaster_number	Exact FEMA disaster number (e.g., 4728).
state	Two-letter state / territory code (e.g., 'FL', 'PR').
declaration_type	DR = major disaster, EM = emergency, FM = fire management.
incident_type	Exact incident type (e.g., 'Hurricane', 'Flood', 'Fire', 'Severe Storm', 'Tornado', 'Earthquake').
title	Case-insensitive substring against declaration title + designated area (e.g., 'ian', 'maui').
since	Declaration date lower bound (YYYY-MM-DD inclusive).
until	Declaration date upper bound (YYYY-MM-DD inclusive).
sort_order	Default: desc (most recent declarations first).
limit	Maximum records to return. Default 50, max 500.

Example request

curl "https://api.keyvex.com/v1/fema-disasters?limit=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

Response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "fiscal_year_declared": 2026,
      "incident_type": "Typhoon",
      "public_assistance": true,
      "designated_area": "Guam (County-equivalent)",
      "fema_region": 9,
      "declaration_title": "TYPHOON BAVI",
      "incident_begin_date": "2026-07-02",
      "last_refresh": "2026-07-03T23:41:16.704Z",
      "incident_end_date": null,
      "disaster_number": 3648,
      "source_url": "https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v2/DisasterDeclarationsSummaries?$filter=femaDeclarationString%20eq%20'EM-3648-GU'",
      "fema_declaration_string": "EM-3648-GU",
      "declaration_date": "2026-07-03",
      "disaster_closeout_date": null,
      "declaration_type": "EM",
      "hazard_mitigation": false,
      "individual_assistance": false,
      "id": "EM-3648-GU-66010",
      "state": "GU",
      "fips_county_code": "010",
      "fips_state_code": "66",
      "individuals_households_program": false,
      "scraped_at": "2026-07-06T03:07:12.984Z"
    }
  ],
  "count": 1,
  "has_more": true
}

Example questions you can answer

Hurricanes / floods / fires declared in a state, with designated counties.
Follow a declaration into federal contracts and grants (the rebuild spend).
Active vs closed-out disasters by incident type.

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