Wildfire Intelligence API — Active Fires US WFIGS + Europe EFFIS

Active wildfire data from official US WFIGS incidents and Europe EFFIS burnt-area polygons in one wildfire API. Returns GeoJSON perimeters for fire monitoring by country, bounding box, or point + radius. No Google Maps scrape. No API keys. Not for dispatch.

Standalone Apify Actor (normalized official feeds). Pairs with the European Fuel Station Prices API (CEE + DACH) for fleet corridors and the Website Change Monitor — Diff Tracker if you schedule HTML pages — this Actor is a feed, not a page watcher.

Slug: wildfire-intelligence
PPE floor: $0.0025 / event ($2.50 / 1k) + usage · min $0.10

Schedule hourly or daily; you pay per saved event, minimum $0.10/run.

What does Wildfire Intelligence API do?

It reads public official geospatial services and returns one normalized JSON row per wildfire incident or mapped burnt area: name, status, coordinates, area (hectares), containment (US), timestamps, source id, optional GeoJSON perimeter, and authority links.

It does not scrape Google Maps crisis layers, dispatch crews, predict spread, or replace InciWeb / civil-protection portals. Boundaries are approximate.

Why use this Actor?

Google Maps can show a “severe fire” overlay. That layer is zoom-dependent and mostly a presentation of upstream feeds (NIFC/WFIGS, satellites, public alerts). Cloning Maps is a weak product. This Actor goes to those upstream feeds and gives you a schedule-friendly dataset for:

1. Dashboards / journalists who need a JSON fire list, not a screenshot.
2. Insurers and travel/risk apps watching a country or bbox.
3. Outdoor apps filtering a point + radius.
4. n8n / Make / Zapier / agents on an hourly or daily schedule.
5. Fleet operators (v1 = events only; v1.1 will add watchlist / route impact against perimeters).

Apify gives you scheduling, a dataset API, webhooks, and PPE so you pay per saved event. That scheduled loop (hourly run × $0.10 minimum) is how fire monitoring stays cheap and current.

vs NASA EONET, FIRMS, and US-only NIFC wrappers

Store listings often wrap NASA EONET (global events, not operational fire perimeters), NASA FIRMS hotspots (satellite detections, different product — not in this v1 build), or US-only NIFC asset screeners.

This Actor is operational incidents + perimeters, two continents, one schema:

Source	What you get	This Actor
NASA EONET	Global natural-event catalog	Not used. We read WFIGS incidents and EFFIS burnt areas.
NASA FIRMS	Thermal hotspots (MAP_KEY)	Roadmap v1.1, not a live input or public task.
US-only NIFC / WFIGS wrappers	US incidents, sometimes per-asset risk scores	We add Europe EFFIS and a single normalized row shape. No property/utility screening in v1.

Use country, usState, bbox, or point + radius (for example 100 km around Los Angeles or Barcelona). Do not expect route polylines or watchlists until v1.1.

Use with Claude, Cursor, and MCP

This Actor is available on the Apify MCP server. Point Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client at mcp.apify.com, then ask for active wildfire data that matches v1 filters:

• “Active wildfires in the United States (WFIGS), max 20 events.”
• “Texas wildfires, usState=TX.”
• “EFFIS burnt areas in Spain / Greece / Portugal / Italy, last 7 days.”
• “Wildfires within 100 km of Los Angeles” or “within 100 km of Barcelona.”

Prompts that ask for NASA FIRMS detections, logistics-route polylines, or property/utility screening are v1.1 — this build will not run them. After a successful run, schedule hourly or daily (webhook optional); you pay per saved event, minimum $0.10/run.

What data can it extract?

Field	Type	Description
source	string	WFIGS (US) or EFFIS (Europe)
name	string	Incident or commune / province label
status	string	active / contained (US) or burnt_area (EFFIS)
country / admin1	string	ISO2 + US state or European province
latitude / longitude	number	Point location or polygon centroid
areaHa	number	Hectares (US acres converted)
containmentPercent	number	US WFIGS only
startedAt / updatedAt	string	ISO timestamps
boundaryGeoJson	object	Optional perimeter / burnt-area polygon
authorityLinks	string[]	NIFC open data or EFFIS + license
disclaimer	string	Not for life-safety dispatch

You can download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

How to get wildfire intelligence

1. Open this Actor in Apify Console (or clone the public example task).
2. Pick region (us, europe, or both) and mode (country, bbox, or point).
3. For a US smoke: country=US, optional usState=CA, maxEvents=15, perimeters off.
4. For Europe: country=ES (or PT, GR, IT, FR, …) and lookbackDays 1 / 7 / 30.
5. Start the run. Schedule it hourly or daily if you need a live feed.

See the Input tab for every field.

Published Store examples:

• California active wildfires — WFIGS incidents (no key)
• Bordeaux Gironde France wildfires — EFFIS burnt areas (no key)
• United States active wildfires — WFIGS
• Texas active wildfires — WFIGS
• Spain burnt areas last 7 days — EFFIS
• Greece burnt areas last 7 days — EFFIS
• Portugal burnt areas last 7 days — EFFIS
• Italy burnt areas last 7 days — EFFIS
• Wildfires within 100 km of Los Angeles
• Wildfires within 100 km of Barcelona

How much will it cost?

Pay per event: $0.0025 per saved wildfire-event row ($2.50 / 1,000), minimum $0.10 per run, plus platform usage. Perimeter GeoJSON is included in that event (not a second charge). Keep maxEvents and includePerimeters=false for cheap smokes.

Schedule hourly or daily if you need a live fire-monitoring feed. Cloning a public example task and turning on a schedule is the usual paid-usage loop (minimum $0.10 per run).

Input

• region — us (WFIGS current wildfires), europe (EFFIS burnt areas), both.
• mode — country (ISO2; US may set usState), bbox (west/south/east/north), point (lat/lng/radiusKm up to 500).
• minAreaHa — drop tiny polygons / incidents.
• includePerimeters — US joins WFIGS current perimeters on IrwinID; Europe includes the EFFIS polygon.
• lookbackDays — Europe only (1 / 7 / 30). If nothing matches, the Actor returns the largest seasonal burnt areas in the bbox so the run is not empty.
• maxEvents — cap after sort by area (1–200).

No API keys. Prescribed burns (IncidentTypeCategory=RX) are excluded; US rows are wildfires (WF) only.

Output

{
  "recordType": "wildfire-event",
  "eventType": "wildfire",
  "source": "WFIGS",
  "sourceId": "{51374D2C-D96B-40F7-940B-6CB8E0A483A2}",
  "name": "Timber",
  "status": "active",
  "country": "US",
  "admin1": "CA",
  "latitude": 36.2159,
  "longitude": -121.7175,
  "areaHa": 4902.77,
  "containmentPercent": 25,
  "startedAt": "2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "confidence": "OFFICIAL",
  "authorityLinks": ["https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com"],
  "boundaryGeoJson": null,
  "disclaimer": "Approximate. Not for life-safety dispatch. Follow local authorities. Source: NIFC/WFIGS or Copernicus EFFIS."
}

A final RUN_STATUS row reports counts and adapter errors (not billed).

Sources and licenses

Region	Feed	Key	Notes
US	NIFC WFIGS current incident locations + interagency perimeters	None	IncidentTypeCategory='WF'. Join perimeters on IrwinID / poly_IRWINID.
Europe	Copernicus EFFIS WFS modis.ba.poly.{year} (fallback previous year or modis.ba.poly)	None	Rapid Damage Assessment burnt areas, ~30 ha mapping unit. Data license.

Not used: Google Maps / SOS, NASA FIRMS, EONET, national 112 portals, LLMs.

What this actor is — and is not

Use it for structured monitoring and integrations. Do not use it for evacuation, firefighting, or life-safety decisions. WFIGS and EFFIS warn that mapped boundaries can differ from conditions on the ground.

Tips

• Store QA / cheap runs: includePerimeters=false, maxEvents=15.
• California watch: region=us, country=US, usState=CA.
• Iberia burnt areas: region=europe, country=ES, lookbackDays=7.
• If region=both and country=US returns zero US incidents, the Actor falls back to EFFIS Iberia so the dataset is not empty.

Roadmap (v1.1 — not in this build)

Watchlist of points / routes → insidePerimeter + distanceKm. Optional NASA FIRMS MAP_KEY for hotspots. Still no Maps scrape. No BYOK LLM in v1 (feeds do not need an AI key).

FAQ

Does this scrape Google Maps severe fire?

No. Maps is treated as validation that crisis-location data is useful, not as a source. This is a wildfire API over official US WFIGS and Europe EFFIS feeds.

Is this NASA EONET or FIRMS?

No. v1 is WFIGS (US incidents + optional perimeters) and EFFIS (Europe burnt areas + GeoJSON). NASA FIRMS is a v1.1 roadmap item, not a live filter.

Do I need an API key?

No. WFIGS and EFFIS are public. Do not paste tokens into public example tasks.

Can I use this for emergency response?

No. It is an intelligence feed with approximate geometries. Not for life-safety dispatch.

How do I keep the feed current?

Schedule the Actor (or a cloned public task) hourly or daily. You pay per saved event, minimum $0.10/run.

Disclaimer

This Actor only reads public official geospatial APIs. Results can include place names. You are responsible for lawful downstream use (GDPR and local rules). Platform and source ToS change — verify before high-volume commercial use.

Related actors (suite)

All Actors from this developer: apify.com/kondasviktor

Actor	Role
Google Maps CEE Scraper — Supplier Shortlist	Discover local suppliers
Website Intelligence + Contact Extractor	Enrich websites (contacts, tech, compliance)
Dealer / Distributor Locator Extractor	Expand brand locator pages
PDF Procurement Document Extractor	Find certs / reports / datasheets
Website Change Monitor — Diff Tracker	Watch pages for changes
European Fuel Station Prices API (CEE + DACH)	CEE + DACH station fuel prices
Product Catalog Scraper — Shopify CSV, WooCommerce & Shoprenter	Public catalogs → Shopify / Woo / Shoprenter CSV
Wildfire Intelligence API — Active Fires US WFIGS + Europe EFFIS (this Actor)	Active wildfire data / GeoJSON fire monitoring

Each Actor runs standalone. Location-intel siblings: fuel prices + wildfire feeds. Supplier suite stays Discover → Enrich → Docs → Watch.

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