API reference

GET /v1

The API index for this site.

• site, name, tagline
• api_version: "v1"
• links.catalog, links.status

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1

GET /v1/catalog

Every dataset published on this site.

• site
• datasets[]: id, kind, title, description, current (version), published_at, cadence, check_every, sla, discontinued
• datasets[].source: name, url, license, commercial_ok
• datasets[].coverage: start, end

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/catalog

GET /v1/status

How fresh each dataset is.

• site, generated_at, overall ("ok" or "degraded")
• datasets[]: id, status, version, checked_at, source_updated_at, sla, consecutive_failures, last_error
• status is one of ok, pending, late, stale-upstream, failing, blocked, discontinued

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/status

GET /v1/{dataset}

Metadata for one dataset: the version that answered, its coverage, source, validation and downloads.

• dataset, kind, title, description, cadence
• version, current_version, pinned, published_at
• source: id, name, publisher, url, license, commercial_ok, attribution, retrieved_at, source_updated_at
• coverage: start, end
• validation: status (pass, warn), warnings[]
• series[]: id, name; for tables also key[] and partition
• downloads[]: name, bytes, url
• links: locations, versions, this_version

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/active-fires

Errors: unknown-dataset , unknown-version , data-unavailable , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

GET /v1/{dataset}/versions

The version history.

• dataset, current, published_at
• previous[]: earlier version ids, newest first
• snapshots: month (YYYY-MM) to version id

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/active-fires/versions

Errors: unknown-dataset , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

GET /v1/{dataset}/locations

What can be requested: each series with its location ids, or for tables the partitions (under the series id "table").

• dataset, version, kind
• series[]: id, name, locations[] (ids)
• locations[]: id, name

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/active-fires/locations

Errors: unknown-dataset , unknown-version , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

GET /v1/{dataset}/{series}/{location}.json

One series at one place, ordered by date. Also .csv.

• meta: dataset, series, series_name, location, location_name, units, source, license, attribution
• data[]: one object per row, with the dataset's columns

Errors: unknown-file , unknown-format , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

GET /v1/{dataset}/table/{partition}.json

Rows of a table for one partition value; table/all has every row for tables up to 50,000 rows. Also .csv.

• meta: dataset, key, partition (when partitioned), rows (count), units, source, license, attribution
• rows[]: one object per row

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/active-fires/table/all.json

Errors: unknown-file , unknown-format , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

GET /v1/{dataset}/download/{dataset}.csv

The whole dataset in one file. Also .parquet. Series downloads add series and location columns.

• CSV (text/csv) or Parquet (application/vnd.apache.parquet)
• Supports Range requests (206)

Example: https://api.wildfiredata.dev/v1/active-fires/download/active-fires.csv

Errors: unknown-file , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

GET /v1/{dataset}/{path}

A file of a files dataset, at its published path.

• The file, with a content type from its extension

Errors: unknown-file , and rate-limited for any endpoint.

Active fires (US and Canada) Table

Id

active-fires

Updates

Hourly

Key

event_id

Partition

country

Columns

event_id text , country text , region text , region_name text , first_detection datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , last_detection datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , detections integer , raw_detections integer , low_confidence_detections integer , satellites text , latitude number, degrees , longitude number, degrees , min_latitude number, degrees , max_latitude number, degrees , min_longitude number, degrees , max_longitude number, degrees , max_frp number, MW , days_detected integer , likely_static_source true / false , incident_irwin_id text , incident_name text , incident_type text , incident_acres number, acres , incident_percent_contained number, percent , incident_discovered datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , incident_link text , incident_distance_km number, km

Current wildland fire incidents (US) Table

Id

fire-incidents

Updates

Hourly

Key

irwin_id

Partition

state

Columns

irwin_id text , unique_fire_id text , name text , type text , state text , county text , county_fips text , gacc text , latitude number, degrees , longitude number, degrees , discovered datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , acres number, acres , discovery_acres number, acres , percent_contained number, percent , contained datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , controlled datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , out datetime (ISO 8601, UTC) , cause text , complexity text , personnel integer , cost_to_date number, USD , management_organization text , jurisdictional_agency text , landowner_kind text , complex_name text , complex_irwin_id text , is_complex_child true / false , modified datetime (ISO 8601, UTC)

Fire perimeters (US), current and archived Files

Id

fire-perimeters

Updates

Hourly

Smoke plumes (NOAA HMS), last 7 days Files

Id

smoke

Updates

Daily