FireLine

FL US wildfire activity near any point, and the federal wildfire and forestry contracts to bid on.

FireLine merges NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections, NIFC WFIGS incidents and perimeters, National Weather Service fire weather alerts and NOAA smoke into one answer around a point, with distances, bearings, sources and times. It also selects wildfire and forestry contract opportunities from SAM.gov, with a change feed for new bids, and 3 fiscal years of related USAspending awards: who won similar work and for how much.

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What it answers

Which fires, perimeters and satellite detections are within 50 km of this point, and in which direction?
Is a Red Flag Warning or a Fire Weather Watch in effect here?
Which wildfires in Oregon are larger than 1,000 acres, and how contained are they?
Which fuels reduction, thinning and fire suppression contracts are open in Montana?
Who won Forest Service thinning contracts in the last 3 years, and for how much?

What it holds now

FL-DET Satellite detections (7 days): loading
FL-INC Current incidents: loading
FL-PER Current perimeters: loading
FL-WX Fire weather alerts: loading
FL-SMK Smoke polygons: loading
FL-CON Contract opportunities: loading
FL-AWD Awards (3 fiscal years): loading

Read live from https://api.elysianintelligence.com/fire/status.

Example

curl "https://api.elysianintelligence.com/fire/v1/fires/near?lat=48.0&lon=-120.3&radius_km=100" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EP_KEY"

{
  "radius_km": 100,
  "detections": {
    "total": 14,
    "clusters": [
      {
        "detections": 14,
        "distance_km": 63.15,
        "direction": "N",
        "source": "NASA FIRMS"
      }
    ]
  },
  "incidents": [
    {
      "name": "LITTLE GIANT",
      "type": "WF",
      "state": "WA",
      "acres": 172912,
      "distance_km": 40.71,
      "bearing_deg": 273,
      "direction": "W",
      "source": "WFIGS current incident locations (NIFC)"
    }
  ],
  "perimeters": [
    {
      "name": "Little Giant",
      "contains_point": true,
      "distance_km": 0
    }
  ],
  "alerts": [],
  "safety": {
    "informational_only": true,
    "not_for_life_safety": true,
    "message": "Informational only. Fire data can be delayed, incomplete or wrong. ..."
  }
}

Shortened. Field names are the API's own; the values come from the public sources, read on 20 Oct 2026.

Endpoints

Every route is also an MCP tool with the same input and output, at https://api.elysianintelligence.com/fire/mcp.

REST route	MCP tool	What it does
`GET /v1/fires/near?lat=&lon=&radius_km=&since=`	`near`	Detections in clusters, incidents, perimeters, alerts and smoke around a point.
`GET /v1/incidents?state=&min_acres=&active=`	`incidents`	Incidents, largest first.
`GET /v1/incidents/{id}`	`get_incident`	One incident and its perimeter as GeoJSON.
`GET /v1/alerts?state=&lat=&lon=`	`weather_alerts`	Active fire weather alerts for a state or a point.
`GET /v1/fires/changes?cursor=&since=`	`changes`	New, updated and removed incidents, perimeters and alerts.
`GET /v1/contracts?state=&naics=&psc=&keyword=&open_only=`	`search_contracts`	Wildfire and forestry contract opportunities.
`GET /v1/contracts/{notice_id}`	`get_contract`	One notice and its amendments.
`GET /v1/contracts/changes?cursor=&since=`	`contract_changes`	New and updated notices, for new-bid alerts.
`GET /v1/awards?naics=&psc=&state=&agency=`	`award_history`	Totals, top recipients and past awards.

Sources, licences and refresh

Source	Licence	Updates
NASA FIRMS active fire detections (VIIRS and MODIS)	NASA data: free to use and redistribute, citation requested	As passes are processed; we read every 15 minutes and keep 7 days
NIFC WFIGS current incidents and perimeters	US government data, public domain	Within minutes of IRWIN; we read every 15 minutes
National Weather Service alerts	US government data, public domain	As issued; we read every 15 minutes
NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke	US government data, public domain	Several times a day; we check hourly
SAM.gov contract opportunities	US government data, public domain	As posted; every 6 hours: the day's first read covers the last two days and today, later reads cover today
USAspending awards	US government data, public domain	Daily; we read weekly