Developers
More Than Hazard Alerts. Enriched Disaster Intelligence.
Explore the structured event, geographic, severity, and exposure information available through DisasterAWARE's enterprise APIs.
DisasterAWARE delivers more than basic notifications about natural disasters and severe weather.
Our enterprise APIs provide enriched intelligence that helps developers understand what is happening, where hazards are occurring, how conditions are evolving, and what populations, infrastructure, or assets may be exposed.
By combining authoritative hazard reporting, scientific observations, geographic information, and available exposure assessments, DisasterAWARE helps technology partners build more sophisticated risk intelligence, insurance, supply chain, security, and operational applications.
Explore the information available through our APIs and learn how DisasterAWARE structures intelligence for integration into your products.
What's Included In Disasteraware Intelligence?
From Individual Events to Actionable Geographic Context.
DisasterAWARE combines multiple categories of hazard intelligence into structured records designed for enterprise applications.
Depending on the hazard type, available data sources, and geographic coverage, intelligence may include:
Event Identification & Classification
Understand the nature of a reported hazard.
Available information may include:
- •Unique event identifiers
- •Hazard type and classification
- •Event names and descriptions
- •Severity classifications
- •Reporting sources
- •Event status and available timestamps
Hazard Characteristics & Severity
Access hazard-specific information describing the nature and intensity of an event.
Examples include:
Available attributes vary by hazard and source.
- •Earthquake magnitude, depth, and shaking intensity
- •Tropical cyclone intensity, movement, and wind information
- •Hail observations and estimated hail sizes
- •Damaging wind observations and available wind footprints
- •Tornado locations, tracks, and reported characteristics
- •Wildfire incident information and available perimeters
- •Flood warnings, observations, and geographic inundation information
Geographic Intelligence & Hazard Footprints
Understand where hazards are occurring and the geographic areas they may affect.
Depending on the event, available geographic intelligence may include:
These geographic features help developers connect disaster intelligence with facilities, properties, infrastructure, and other locations relevant to their applications.
- •Event coordinates and locations
- •Geographic alert areas
- •Hazard tracks and paths
- •Observed or estimated hazard footprints
- •Geographic polygons and spatial features
- •Intensity and severity zones
- •Supporting geographic information
Exposure Assessments
Move beyond the location of a hazard to understand what may be exposed.
Where available, DisasterAWARE provides exposure information that can include:
Exposure information helps applications assess the potential significance of a disaster.
Exposure estimates are not equivalent to confirmed damage or realized losses.
- •Population within affected geographic areas
- •Households potentially exposed
- •Infrastructure and estimated replacement values
- •Geographic areas experiencing different hazard intensity levels
- •Supporting geographic exposure context
Reported Impacts & Consequences
Understand the reported human and physical consequences of disasters.
Where supported by the underlying event intelligence and data sources, information may include:
DisasterAWARE is expanding its historical and event-associated impact intelligence to incorporate additional information about infrastructure damage, economic losses, outages, and operational disruptions.
The availability and completeness of reported impact information vary by event and source.
- •Reported fatalities
- •Injuries
- •Displacement
- •Reported damage
- •Other available event-associated consequences
Intelligence Across Multiple Hazard Types
Different Hazards. Specialized Intelligence.
DisasterAWARE's data structures accommodate the different characteristics of natural disasters, severe weather, and supported human-induced threats.
Rather than treating every hazard as a simple point on a map, our intelligence incorporates available hazard-specific attributes and geographic context.
Earthquakes
Access earthquake information such as magnitude, depth, epicenter location, event timing, available shaking intensity, and geographic exposure.
Supporting intelligence may include ShakeMap-derived information and available estimates of potentially exposed populations and infrastructure.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Explore storm identification, intensity, movement, geographic tracks, wind information, and available supporting hazard intelligence.
Historical datasets can also provide additional context about past storm activity and geographic footprints.
Severe Convective Storms
Access specialized intelligence about hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes.
Available information may include hail observations and estimated sizes, geographic hail swaths, damaging wind footprints, tornado tracks, and related storm characteristics.
Wildfires
Explore reported wildfire incidents, geographic locations, available perimeter information, supporting detections, and incident updates.
Available geographic intelligence helps applications investigate wildfire activity and potentially affected locations.
Floods
Access supported flood event information, warnings, observations, and available geographic flood intelligence.
Depending on the source and dataset, this can include inundation areas, flood extent, depth information, and supporting geographic context.
Other Natural & Environmental Hazards
DisasterAWARE supports additional hazard categories, including winter storms, landslides, tsunamis, volcanic activity, and other natural or environmental events.
The available attributes and geographic information depend on the hazard type and underlying sources.
OSINT & Human-Induced Threats
DisasterAWARE also incorporates supported open-source intelligence relating to demonstrations, labor strikes, emerging disruptions, and other human-induced events.
Available information can help developers connect operational threat awareness with geographic locations and event context.
Understanding Different Types Of Disaster Intelligence
Warnings, Observations, Exposure & Impacts Are Not the Same.
Disaster intelligence becomes more valuable when applications distinguish between what is predicted, what has been observed, what may be exposed, and what consequences have been reported.
Warnings & Forecasts
What could happen?
Warnings and forecasts identify areas where hazardous conditions are expected or may develop.
These may originate from national meteorological agencies, scientific models, or other supported forecasting and warning sources.
Observed Hazard Intelligence
What has happened or is happening?
Observed intelligence represents reported or detected hazard conditions.
Examples include wildfire detections, hail observations, tornado tracks, earthquake measurements, and available flood observations.
Some observed intelligence products may also incorporate scientific estimation or processing to create geographic footprints.
Geographic Exposure
What could be affected?
Exposure information relates geographic hazard areas to potentially affected populations, infrastructure, properties, or other assets.
Exposure helps applications assess the potential significance of an event but does not establish that damage has occurred.
Reported Impacts
What consequences have been documented?
Impact intelligence describes available reports of fatalities, injuries, displacement, damage, and other event-associated consequences.
Reported impacts may evolve as additional information becomes available.
Historical Context
What has happened before?
Historical catastrophe intelligence helps applications investigate past events, geographic footprints, intensity, and associated consequences.
Combining these categories provides a more complete foundation for risk analysis, catastrophe research, and operational decision support.
How Disasteraware Structures Api Responses
Designed for Developers. Enriched for Analysis.
The DisasterAWARE Enterprise V2 API provides structured hazard records that combine event details with available geographic and exposure intelligence.
Rather than requiring applications to retrieve every supporting element through separate requests, the V2 response structure brings related information together.
Key components of the V2 hazard structure include:
Core Hazard Attributes
Identify the hazard, its classification, severity, location, and timing.
Incident Information — incident
Provides available hazard-specific attributes and incident details.
Alert Geometry — alertGeometry
Describes the geographic area associated with the hazard notification.
Geographic Features — features
Provides available supporting geographic information, which may include relevant hazard features and spatial data.
Exposure Areas — exposureAreas
Represents geographic areas associated with potential hazard exposure.
Exposure Assessment — exposureAssessment
Provides available estimates of exposed populations, infrastructure, and other supported exposure characteristics.
Not every hazard record contains every component. Field availability depends on the hazard type, source data, and enrichment supported for the event.
Explore a Published Earthquake Response
Our Enterprise V2 documentation includes an earthquake example demonstrating how an event record can combine seismic characteristics, geographic information, and exposure estimates.
The example illustrates the relationship between an earthquake's characteristics, geographic shaking information, and the populations and infrastructure potentially exposed.
Flexible Delivery For Different Applications
One Intelligence Foundation. Multiple Ways to Integrate.
DisasterAWARE supports different integration methods depending on how your application needs to retrieve, process, or analyze intelligence.
REST APIs
Retrieve structured disaster and severe weather information through supported enterprise API endpoints.
- Best suited for:
- Application integrations, risk monitoring, geographic analysis, and programmatic event retrieval.
Webhooks
Receive supported hazard updates automatically at configured customer endpoints.
The Enterprise V2 webhook delivery uses the same hazard-object structure as the corresponding pull API, helping developers maintain consistent processing across delivery methods.
- Best suited for:
- Event-driven monitoring, automated alerts, and operational workflows.
Historical Data Delivery
Access supported historical catastrophe datasets through bulk delivery methods, including Parquet files via S3, with available metadata and query capabilities.
- Best suited for:
- Catastrophe modeling, historical research, underwriting analytics, and data engineering.
Geospatial Services
Integrate supported geographic intelligence layers into mapping, GIS, and spatial analytical environments.
- Best suited for:
- Hazard visualization, geographic risk assessment, and exposure analysis.
MCP Servers
Connect compatible AI applications to supported disaster intelligence tools through Model Context Protocol integrations.
- Best suited for:
- AI-powered disaster research, risk assistants, and natural-language analytical workflows.
Build Applications With Deeper Disaster Context
Turn Structured Intelligence into More Informed Decisions.
DisasterAWARE's enriched intelligence helps technology partners build applications that move beyond identifying individual hazard events.
Insurance & Reinsurance
Connect hazard characteristics, geographic footprints, and exposure information with property and portfolio analysis.
Risk Intelligence & Corporate Security
Incorporate current disaster information, geographic context, and available severity intelligence into operational monitoring applications.
Supply Chain & Logistics
Investigate natural disasters, severe weather, and supported operational threats near suppliers, facilities, and transportation networks.
Business Continuity & Resilience
Connect hazard information with important operational locations to support incident awareness and preparedness.
GIS & Mapping Platforms
Visualize available hazard tracks, footprints, geographic exposure areas, and supporting intelligence layers.
AI-Powered Applications
Connect supported disaster intelligence with AI workflows to investigate historical events, developing hazards, and geographic risk.
Explore the Intelligence Behind DisasterAWARE.
From basic event identification to detailed hazard characteristics, geographic footprints, exposure assessments, and reported impacts, DisasterAWARE provides structured intelligence designed to support sophisticated applications. Explore our production API documentation to understand the technical response structures, or contact our team to discuss the intelligence available for your specific use case.