🌪️ US Disaster Declarations & FEMA Money Monitor (MCP)

The full OpenFEMA official feed: every US disaster declaration — and every dollar of public-assistance money obligated — with state, county, programs, incident type and amounts. Monitor mode = "a disaster was declared / new FEMA money landed" alerts, daily. Official API. No key. MCP-ready.

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✨ The 6 things ChatGPT can't do (built in)

Ingredient	Here
🔒 Hard-to-get data	Two OpenFEMA v2 entities chained: DisasterDeclarationsSummaries + PublicAssistanceFundedProjectsDetails — federal share obligated, project amounts, damage categories, per-county designations. 100% the federal record.
🛠️ Hardest problems, solved	openFEMA quirks handled: NULL incident dates (EM declarations), per-area rows, PA state via stateAbbreviation, re-obligations at new amounts.
⚙️ Automation	monitor + daily schedule = "Hurricane EM declared for Alabama — Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile counties" the morning it happens. Disaster-recovery contractors, debris/hauling firms, roofers, engineering firms and NGOs mobilize on exactly this signal — and pay for it.
🧠 AI-agent cheap	$0.001 start + $0.001 per item.

💡 The two money signals, separated: (1) a new county designation on an existing disaster (KV key = disaster + area — you see Isaias gain counties in real time), and (2) a re-obligation when the same project gets MORE money (KV key includes the federal share). Both are charged events. Both are what small Contractors actually act on.

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🚀 3 recipes that pay

#1 — Storm-chaser mobilization (disaster contractors)

{ "mode": "monitor", "daysBack": 1, "states": ["FL", "LA", "TX", "AL", "MS"], "incidentTypeIncludes": "Hurricane" }

→ Schedule 06:00 → the hour FEMA declares anything hurricane-ish in the Gulf, your crew knows before the newsrooms do.

#2 — Follow the federal money (subcontractors, bond desks)

{ "mode": "monitor", "scopes": ["pa"], "minFederalShare": 100000, "daysBack": 7 }

→ Only obligations ≥ $100k, nationwide — road damages, utilities, emergency protective measures, with county + damage category.

#3 — Regional risk intel (insurers, journalists, NGOs)

{ "mode": "search", "scopes": ["declarations"], "declarationTypes": ["DR"], "daysBack": 90, "maxResults": 300 }

→ Every major-disaster declaration of the quarter, programs and counties included.

MCP: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/fema-disaster-monitor — your agent answers "any new FEMA declarations or big obligations in Louisiana this week?" with the official record.

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📦 What each row contains

Declaration rows: disasterNumber · declarationType (DR/EM/FM) · title · state/stateCode · designatedArea + countyCode · programs[] (IA/PA/HM/IH) · incidentType + begin/end dates · declarationDateISO · lastIAFilingDateISO (survivor deadline) · tribalRequest · fyDeclared · closeoutDateISO · url.

PA money rows: disasterNumber · pwNumber · applicationTitle · state/county · damageCategoryCode/damageCategory (roads, utilities, water, buildings…) · federalShareObligated / totalObligated / projectAmount / mitigationAmount · projectSize/projectStatus/projectProcessStep · firstObligationISO/lastObligationISO · url.

Plus feed · eventKey · isNew/firstSeenAt (monitor) on every row.

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🆚 Competition

Actor	Users	Monitor	The money feed (PA $)
fortuitous_pirate/fema-flood-scraper	21	❌ flood only	❌
ryanclinton/fema-disaster-search	16	❌	❌
us	—	✅ KV dedupe both feeds	✅ obligations + re-obligations

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🧪 Input reference

Key	Default	What it does
mode	search	monitor = only never-seen items (KV fema-seen)
scopes	both	declarations / pa
daysBack	14	declarationDate (decl) / firstObligationDate (money)
states	all	server-side state filter (FL, TX…)
declarationTypes, programsInclude	all	DR/EM/FM and IA/PA/HM/IH
incidentTypeIncludes	—	'Hurricane', 'Flood', 'Fire'…
minFederalShare	0 = off	money-feed threshold
countyIncludes, keywords	—	client-side refinement

Fair use — OpenFEMA is FEMA's official open-data API (public federal works). Two polite requests per run max, date-windowed server-side.

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💰 Pricing

• $0.001 actor start · $0.001 per item — counties, programs, obligations FREE

Rows	Cost (us)
60 items (weekly storm scan)	~$0.06
Daily national watch (30 days)	~$0.30–1/month

Part of the AmyGraphics data empire — 29 public actors: recalls (FDA + CPSC), tenders (EU/US/UK), registers (companies, grants, trials, regulations), disasters, conferences, jobs & real estate. Contact: morocco.uiux@gmail.com · apify.com/amygraphics