🔥 NIFC Wildfire Incidents Scraper

🚀 Export NIFC records in seconds. Pipe results straight into your spreadsheet, dashboard, or data warehouse.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 11 fields per record · Public NIFC data · Real-time updates

The NIFC Wildfire Incidents Scraper turns the public National Interagency Fire Center ArcGIS feed into a clean structured dataset of current US wildfire incidents. Each row carries incident name, state, county, coordinates, acres burned, containment, cause, and discovery date.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🚒 Emergency managers	Track active wildfires nationwide.
🏠 Insurance teams	Assess wildfire exposure on policy areas.
📰 Journalists	Build live wildfire maps for newsrooms.
🌲 Forestry agencies	Coordinate response with current data.

📋 What the NIFC Wildfire Incidents Scraper does

• Fetches the public NIFC feed at https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/arcgis/rest/services/WFIGS_Incident_Locations_Current/FeatureServer/0/query.
• Parses the response and flattens each record into one structured row.
• Casts numeric values to numbers, dates to ISO strings.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean error record instead of crashing.
• Pushes everything to the dataset, ready for instant download.

💡 Why it matters: NIFC publishes the data, but the raw response is awkward to work with. This actor normalizes everything into a flat schema that drops straight into pandas, BigQuery, or a Google Sheet.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

See the Input tab on the Apify console for the full list of supported filters. Every filter is optional. maxItems controls how many records are returned.

Example

{
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know. Free users are capped at 10 records per run as a preview. Paid users can pull up to 1,000,000 records.

📊 Output

Each record is a flat object. The error field is always last.

Field	Type	Description
🔥 incident_name	string	Incident name.
🗺️ state	string	US state code.
🏞️ county	string	County name.
📍 lat	number	Latitude.
📍 lon	number	Longitude.
📏 acres	number	Daily acres burned.
🛡️ containment_pct	number	Percent contained.
⚡ cause	string	Cause of fire.
📅 discovery_date	string	When the fire was discovered.
🚦 status	string	Current incident status.
🌲 fuel_type	string	Primary fuel.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if the upstream response was an error.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with the free Apify plan (10-record preview). | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case keys ready for BI tools. | | 🔢 | Auto-casts numeric and date fields. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as a clean record. | | 💾 | Push to dataset and download in any supported format. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Clean keys	Numeric casting	Error handling
Roll your own fetch	30 min +	No	No	No
This Actor	5 sec, no install	Yes	Yes	Yes

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust the input filters or leave defaults.
3. Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready.

💼 Business use cases

🚒 Live wildfire dashboards. Refresh hourly to power public-facing maps.

🏠 Insurance exposure. Filter to fires above a threshold and intersect with policy geographies.

📰 Newsroom monitoring. Alert reporters when a new large fire ignites in their coverage area.

🌲 Land management. Track containment percentages and acreage trends across the season.

🔌 Automating NIFC Wildfire Incidents Scraper

• Make / Zapier. Trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Slack, or your CRM.
• Cron schedule. Apify's native scheduler runs this on whatever cadence you need.
• Webhooks. Get a POST to your endpoint the moment a run finishes.
• Pipe to your warehouse. Native Apify integrations move datasets straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Use real public data for classroom projects.

🧪 Personal research. Build your own dashboards and notebooks.

🤝 Non-profit & open data. Power public dashboards without writing client code.

🧰 Tinkering & prototyping. Spin up a fresh data feed in seconds.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your specific workflow to the actor's inputs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is the data free? Yes. NIFC publishes the ArcGIS feed publicly.

❓ How fresh is the data? NIFC refreshes through the day. The actor pulls live on every run.

❓ Can I filter by state? Yes, set the State input.

❓ Does it include coordinates? Yes, every record has lat/lon.

❓ Does this need an API key? No.

❓ Are historic fires included? This feed is current incidents. Use the NIFC archive for historic data.

❓ Will the schema change? Core fields are stable.

❓ Is this scraping or API? API. NIFC publishes a public ArcGIS REST endpoint.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via Apify's scheduler.

❓ What if containment is null? Some early-stage fires report no containment yet.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

🔗 Recommended Actors

Actor	What it does
ParseForge Alpha Vantage Scraper	Market data, FX, crypto.
ParseForge OurAirports Scraper	Global airport database.
ParseForge NBA Stats Scraper	Player and team stats from NBA.com.
ParseForge CurseForge Mods Scraper	Public mod metadata.

💡 Pro Tip. Browse the complete ParseForge collection for 900+ production-grade scrapers across business intelligence, real estate, e-commerce, sports, finance, and public records.

---

Disclaimer. This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party services referenced. Users are responsible for complying with the target site's terms of service and applicable law. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.