FEMA OpenFEMA

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Federal disaster declarations, NFIP flood insurance claims, IPAWS public alerts, and post-disaster public-assistance projects from FEMA.

What is FEMA OpenFEMA?

Federal Emergency Management Agency open data — operational continuity, risk exposure, and post-disaster funding signals. Four datasets exposed via four search methods plus getServiceInfo: federal disaster declarations 1953-present (~70K rows, one row per designated area, 21 incident types from Hurricane to Volcanic Eruption to Toxic Substances, 3 declaration types DR/EM/FM, refresh every 20 minutes); NFIP flood-insurance claims (~2.7M anonymized claims back to 1973 with date of loss, flood zone, building/contents damage, paid amounts, FIPS county, lat/lon); FEMA Public Assistance funded project details (~898K project line items with damage category A-G/Z, applicant, project status, federal share obligated, first/last obligation dates — pivot a hurricane disasterNumber to the funded response); IPAWS archived public emergency alerts (~4.8M with sender, CAP event type, severity, urgency, headline, area description). Pivot use cases: a county to its NFIP claim history; a hurricane disasterNumber to the public-assistance projects awarded; a CAP event type to its IPAWS alert volume across a date range. Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Available Tools

searchDisasterDeclarations
Federal disaster declarations 1953-present (~70K rows). Filter state, county, incidentType (Hurricane, Flood, Fire, Tornado, etc.), declarationType (DR/EM/FM), year, declaration date range.
searchNfipClaims
NFIP flood-insurance claims (~2.7M anonymized rows since 1973). Filter state, 5-digit county FIPS, date of loss range, year, ratedFloodZone (A/AE/AH/AO/V/VE/X/etc.), occupancyType. Monthly refresh.
searchPublicAssistanceProjects
FEMA Public Assistance funded project details (~898K rows). Pivot disasterNumber to funded projects, damage category code (A-G or Z), project status (Active/Ineligible), federal-share obligation amounts.
searchIpawsAlerts
IPAWS archived public emergency alerts (~4.8M rows). Filter sender (e.g. 'w-nws' for NWS), CAP eventType (Tornado Warning, Flash Flood Warning, etc.), msgType (Alert/Cancel/Update), sent date range.
getServiceInfo
Live row counts per dataset and exact distinct enum values for filter columns (incidentType, declarationType, ratedFloodZone, occupancyType, projectStatus, damageCategoryCode, ipawsMsgType).

Requirements

Toggle On
Toggle on and use — no setup needed.

Quick Setup Guide

Follow these steps to connect your AI agents to this connector

Open /mcp and enable FEMA OpenFEMA with the toggle — no credentials needed.

Call searchDisasterDeclarations with state and incidentType to find federal declarations, then pivot via disasterNumber to searchPublicAssistanceProjects for the funded response.

Connect to Your AI Assistant

Choose your AI assistant below for specific setup instructions

Follow these steps to connect FEMA OpenFEMA to Claude:

Step 1: Open Claude Settings

Launch Claude → Click the profile button (bottom left) → Navigate to Settings

Step 2: Access Connectors

Scroll down to the Connectors tab → Navigate to the bottom → Click “Add Custom Connector”

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the Connector

Paste the URL in the “Remote MCP Server URL” text box → Click Add

Step 6: Start Using

Your connector is now ready to use in Claude

Follow these steps to connect FEMA OpenFEMA to ChatGPT:

Step 1: Enable Developer Mode

Go to Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Enable Developer mode

Step 2: Create New Connector

Go back to Connectors page → Click “Create” (top right)

Step 3: Name Your Connector

Enter any name you'd like for this connector (descriptions are optional)

Step 4: Get the Connector URL

Step 5: Add the URL

Paste the URL in the “MCP Server URL” text box

Step 6: Set Authentication

Click the authentication dropdown → Select “No authentication” (PatchOps handles authentication internally)

Step 7: Create the Connector

Click “I understand and want to continue” checkbox → Press Create

Step 8: Using the Connector

Start a new chat → Click the + button (left of text box) → Open dropdown → Hover over three dots labeled “More” → Select your connector

Instructions for connecting FEMA OpenFEMA to GitHub Copilot:

Coming Soon

Detailed setup instructions for GitHub Copilot will be added here.

For other MCP-compatible platforms:

Step 1: Get the Connector URL

Step 2: Add to Configuration

Add this configuration to your MCP settings file. Replace the URL with your specific connector URL from the /mcp page:

"FEMA OpenFEMA-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}

Example Configuration

Here’s an example using PatchOps MCP:

"PatchOps-MCP": {
  "url": "https://patchops.ai/api/mcp/...",
  "type": "http"
}