`disaster_declarations`

Pack: openfema · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openfema/mcp

Look up and COUNT US federal disaster declarations (FEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries). Filters: state (2-letter), incidentType (e.g. ‘Fire’, ‘Flood’, ‘Hurricane’, ‘Severe Storm’), declarationType (‘DR’ major disaster, ‘EM’ emergency, ‘FM’ fire management), year (fyDeclared, the federal FISCAL year), and since/until for a real calendar date range — use since/until for questions like ‘in the past year’, which a fiscal year does not answer. Counts are DISTINCT DISASTERS by default, not table rows: FEMA publishes one row per disaster per designated county, so Hurricane Harvey is ~60 rows for Texas but one declaration. Pass designatedArea or grain:‘area’ for county-level rows. Returns the most recent first.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`state`	string	no	2-letter state/territory code, e.g. ‘CA’, ‘TX’.
`year`	integer	no	Federal FISCAL year declared (fyDeclared), e.g. 2024. For a calendar window use since/until instead.
`since`	string	no	Only declarations on/after this date — ISO ‘YYYY-MM-DD’. Use with until for windows like ‘the past year’.
`until`	string	no	Only declarations on/before this date — ISO ‘YYYY-MM-DD’.
`incidentType`	string	no	Incident type, e.g. ‘Fire’, ‘Flood’, ‘Hurricane’, ‘Severe Storm’.
`declarationType`	string	no	’DR’ (major disaster), ‘EM’ (emergency), or ‘FM’ (fire management).
`designatedArea`	string	no	Filter to a designated area, e.g. ‘Harris (County)’. Implies county-level grain.
`grain`	string	no	’disaster’ (default) = one record per declaration; ‘area’ = one record per designated county.
`limit`	integer	no	Max records (default 50, max 1000).
`orderby`	string	no	OData $orderby, default ‘declarationDate desc’. Live-API path only.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "state": "CA",
  "year": 2024
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openfema/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"disaster_declarations","arguments":{"state":"CA","year":2024}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('disaster_declarations', {
  "state": "CA",
  "year": 2024
});

More examples

{
  "state": "TX",
  "incidentType": "Hurricane",
  "declarationType": "DR",
  "limit": 100
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openfema": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openfema/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

disaster_declarations