Natural Disaster API
Natural Disaster API: Real-Time Events & Historical Data
A natural disaster API that returns verified events, not raw noise: earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tsunamis, volcanoes, and 25+ more hazard types, detected globally from authoritative sources, cross-verified, and delivered with severity and population-exposure attributes — as REST APIs, webhooks, and event streams. Live feed below; decades of historical catastrophe data behind it.
Not a brochure — the actual feed
See the API's Data, Live
Everything below comes from the same feed the API serves. The counts update hourly; the map is the live global picture.
One API, Every Hazard
Teams often search for a flood API, an earthquake API, or a hurricane tracking API — and end up stitching together single-hazard feeds with inconsistent schemas. DisasterAWARE delivers every hazard family through one consistent, verified interface.
Hurricane & Typhoon API
Tropical cyclones tracked advisory by advisory — position, intensity, wind radii, forecast track, and projected landfall with exposed population. The feed behind our live storm coverage.
See live hurricanes intelligence →Earthquake API
Verified seismic events within minutes, reconciled across networks (USGS, regional agencies), with magnitude, depth, shaking footprint, and exposure — plus tsunami linkage when generated.
See live earthquakes intelligence →Flood API
Riverine and flash flood events from hydrological services and satellite detection, with affected-area geometry and population exposure.
See live floods intelligence →Wildfire API
Satellite-detected fire events — updated as frequently as every 15 minutes in the US — with perimeter growth, smoke, and structure exposure.
See live wildfires intelligence →Tornado API
Warnings and confirmed tornado events with damage-survey updates as official ratings land.
See live tornadoes intelligence →Tsunami API
Basin-wide tsunami bulletins from official warning centers, linked to their source earthquakes, from advisory through cancellation.
See live tsunamis intelligence →What Every Event Carries
An event without context is noise. Every event in the feed arrives decision-ready:
- ✓Verified event with type, severity, and lifecycle state
- ✓Location and hazard geometry (points, perimeters, tracks, cones)
- ✓Population, households, and infrastructure exposed
- ✓Timing: detection, updates, and expiration
- ✓Source provenance from authoritative agencies
- ✓Machine-readable formats: REST, webhooks, event streams
Full field-level detail — including the incident, geometry, and exposure-assessment structures and an OpenAPI specification — is in the V2 API documentation.
Historical Disaster Data API
The Observed Record, Decades Deep
The same event pipeline, backward in time: a structured, globally consistent historical catastrophe database for risk baselines, trend analysis, event-catalog enrichment, and model validation. It's what powers the risk scores across this site's 2,000+ city and hazard pages.
Who Builds on This API
Insurers & Reinsurers
Pre-landfall accumulation checks, CAT claims triage data, parametric trigger sourcing, and historical event catalogs for markets the models don't reach.
Hazard data for insurers →Notification & Response Platforms
Critical event management stacks are only as good as the events they know about. Feed verified, severity-scored events into your notification and response workflows — the intelligence pillar, as a service.
Where intelligence fits in CEM →Risk Platforms & Brokers
Embed global hazard intelligence inside your own product — the integration pattern behind platforms built by the world's largest insurance broker.
Customer stories →Natural Disaster API: Questions, Answered
What is a natural disaster API?
A natural disaster API delivers structured, machine-readable data about hazard events — earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tsunamis, volcanoes, and more — so applications can consume verified event information programmatically instead of scraping feeds or news. The DisasterAWARE API adds severity assessment, verification across authoritative sources, and population/infrastructure exposure attributes to every event.
What hazard types does the API cover?
30+ hazard types with global coverage: earthquake, tropical cyclone (hurricane/typhoon), flood, wildfire, tornado, tsunami, volcano, severe weather, winter storm, extreme temperature, landslide, drought, high wind, and more — from authoritative scientific and governmental sources worldwide.
Does it include historical disaster data?
Yes. Alongside the live feed, DisasterAWARE Historical Event Intelligence provides a structured, multi-decade, globally consistent catalog of past events — the observed record used for risk baselines, event catalog enrichment, and catastrophe model validation.
How is a disaster API different from a weather API?
A weather API reports atmospheric conditions and forecasts. A disaster API reports verified hazard events across all hazard families — including geological events no weather API covers (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes) — with event lifecycle tracking, severity classification, and impact assessment against population and infrastructure.