Environment & Hazards

Official weather, hazard, and environmental feeds for alerts, local planning, and operational monitors.

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AEMET Spain CAP Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Official Spanish adverse-weather CAP warning Atom feed from AEMET for inspecting alert IDs, updates, and affected regions.

First Project: Inspect Spanish CAP Publications

EnvironmentAtom +1No Key
ARSO Current Hydrology
BeginnerTiny
Slovenian river and lake station measurements for building a local water-level conditions display.

First Project: Inspect Dated Local Conditions

EnvironmentXMLNo Key
Austria AT-Alert Public Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Official Austrian civil-emergency alerts from the AT-Alert public API for reviewing affected polygons, alert levels, and validity intervals.

First Project: Inspect Austrian Civil Alerts

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Avalanche.report Regional Bulletins
BeginnerTiny
European regional avalanche bulletins published as CAAML JSON for building a dated mountain hazard view.

First Project: Review Regional Avalanche Bulletins

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Aviation Weather Center METAR and Stations
BeginnerTiny
Current airport METAR observations and station metadata from NOAA's Aviation Weather Center for checking representative weather conditions near destinations.

First Project: Check One Airport Observation

EnvironmentJSON +1No Key
British Columbia Hourly PM2.5
BeginnerTiny
Preliminary British Columbia fine-particle station readings for inspecting hourly particulate concentrations and their observation times.

First Project: Inspect B.C. Hourly PM2.5

EnvironmentCSVNo Key
Catalonia Civil Protection Plans
BeginnerTiny
Current Catalan civil-protection plan activations and phases for reviewing regional emergency context and official CECAT updates.

First Project: Inspect Current Catalan Plan Phases

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
CHMI Current Hydrology Stations
IntermediateTiny
Current Czech hydrological station series from CHMI for checking measured water levels against separately documented local thresholds.

First Project: Inspect One Czech River Station

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
CHMI Flash-Flood Risk Product
IntermediateTiny
Official Czech flash-flood risk classes for administrative areas from CHMI for reviewing local short-term flooding risk.

First Project: Inspect Czech Flash-Flood Areas

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Copernicus EDO Drought Indicator
IntermediateTiny
Dekadal European Combined Drought Indicator rasters for agricultural and ecosystem drought context tools.

First Project: Inspect One Drought Product

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
Copernicus ERA5 Reanalysis
AdvancedLarge
Global hourly climate reanalysis for building location-specific weather-history tools from a tightly bounded ERA5 extract.

First Project: Reconstruct One Hour of 2-Metre Temperature

EnvironmentNetCDF +1Key
Copernicus Global Flood Monitoring Layers
IntermediateTiny
Satellite observed flood extent, likelihood, and advisory-flag rasters for corroborating possible flood events.

First Project: Inspect a Flood-Extent Tile

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
Copernicus GloFAS Flood Outlook
IntermediateTiny
Global flood-forecast summary maps for selecting areas needing closer satellite or local-authority checks.

First Project: Inspect a Flood-Outlook Tile

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
Copernicus Rapid Mapping Activations
BeginnerTiny
Public emergency-mapping activation metadata and product references for dated disaster-response context tools.

First Project: Inspect a Public Activation

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
CWFIF Active Wildland Fires
BeginnerTiny
Canadian active-wildfire records from NRCan CWFIF for inspecting fire identifiers, status, size, and reported location.

First Project: Inspect Canadian Active Fires

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
CWFIS M3 Perimeter Estimates
BeginnerTiny
Canadian M3 estimated wildfire perimeters from NRCan CWFIS for showing approximate fire-footprint context.

First Project: Inspect Canadian M3 Footprints

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
DHMZ Croatia CAP Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Croatian weather warnings published as CAP XML by DHMZ for reading official warning severity, geography, and validity.

First Project: Inspect One Croatian CAP Message

EnvironmentXMLNo Key
DWD Germany CAP Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Official German weather-warning CAP files from DWD for monitoring current municipal alert status and affected area.

First Project: Inspect German CAP Status

EnvironmentZIP +1No Key
ECCC Air Quality Health Index
BeginnerTiny
Real-time Canadian AQHI observations from ECCC for reviewing health-risk index readings at reporting regions and stations.

First Project: Inspect Canadian AQHI Readings

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
ECCC FireWork Smoke Forecast
IntermediateMedium
Environment and Climate Change Canada's wildfire-smoke concentration forecast for dated regional smoke-context tools.

First Project: Inspect a FireWork Smoke Coverage

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
EEA Air Quality Index Stations
BeginnerTiny
European Environment Agency hourly station AQI details for building a measured air-quality context view.

First Project: Inspect Station AQI Context

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
EFFIS Active Fire Hotspots
IntermediateTiny
Filtered MODIS and VIIRS thermal-detection layers for current European wildfire discovery and corroboration.

First Project: Inspect an Active-Fire Layer

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
EFFIS Burned-Area Perimeters
IntermediateTiny
Near-real-time European burned-area polygons for corroborating recent wildfire detections against mapped perimeters.

First Project: Inspect a Recent Perimeter Query

EnvironmentGMLNo Key
EFFIS Fire Danger Forecast
IntermediateTiny
European Fire Weather Index forecast rasters for regional fire-danger context and dated hazard displays.

First Project: Show a Dated Fire-Danger Tile

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
eHYD Current Flood Stages
BeginnerTiny
Austrian hydrographic station levels and stage codes for bounded, dated flood-context checks.

First Project: Inspect One Austrian Gauge

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
EMSC Seismic Portal Events
IntermediateTiny
Preliminary EMSC earthquake event records through the FDSN service for seismic discovery and comparison with other official event feeds.

First Project: Compare Two Recent Earthquake Reports

EnvironmentGeoJSON +1No Key
Environment Agency Flood Warnings
BeginnerTiny
Current Environment Agency flood alerts and warnings for England for mapping affected flood areas and monitoring official severity changes.

First Project: Inspect Current Flood Severities

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
EPA AirData Daily Summaries
IntermediateMedium
Quality-assured daily ambient air-monitor measurements for building historical pollution, compliance-context, and station comparison tools.

First Project: Compare Daily PM2.5 Summaries within One State

EnvironmentCSV +1No Key
EPA AirNow Air Quality
IntermediateSmall
Preliminary real-time AQI observations and forecasts for building local air-quality displays, relays, and operational awareness tools.

First Project: Relay Official AQI Observations for One Area

EnvironmentJSON +2Key
EPA ECHO Drinking Water Systems
IntermediateSmall
SDWA public water-system inventory and compliance records for building local drinking-water system lookups.

First Project: Profile Active Public Water Systems in One State

EnvironmentJSON +1No Key
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
IntermediateSmall
Facility-level U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions reports for building industrial emissions maps and sector comparison tools.

First Project: Map Colorado GHGRP Facilities

EnvironmentExcel +2No Key
EPA Toxics Release Inventory
IntermediateMedium
Facility-level toxic chemical release reports for building fenceline community monitors and environmental-justice screens.

First Project: Map Reporting TRI Facilities in One State

EnvironmentJSON +1No Key
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer
IntermediateMedium
Effective digital flood-hazard zones for building address-level flood-risk lookups and site-selection screens.

First Project: Look Up the Effective Flood Zone for One Address Point

EnvironmentJSON +1No Key
FEMA National Risk Index
IntermediateMedium
FEMA tract and county natural-hazard risk and annualized-loss layers for comparing residential hazard context and screening locations with consistent geographic units.

First Project: Compare Tract Hazard Context

EnvironmentJSON +2No Key
FEMA NFIP Redacted Claims
IntermediateMedium
Redacted National Flood Insurance Program claims for building local flood-loss histories and insurance-signal prototypes.

First Project: Summarize Recent Florida NFIP Claims

EnvironmentJSON +2No Key
Finnish Meteorological Institute CAP Warnings
IntermediateTiny
FMI weather-warning RSS and linked CAP messages for monitoring official Finnish alert publications and validity.

First Project: Inspect Current Finnish Warning Entries

EnvironmentRSS +1No Key
FOEN National Flood Warning Map
IntermediateTiny
Swiss federal flood-warning map layer for checking official warning levels near mapped destinations.

First Project: Inspect a Swiss Flood-Warning Tile

EnvironmentGeoTIFFNo Key
GDACS Disaster Alerts
BeginnerTiny
Global multi-hazard disaster alerts for building international emergency monitors that stay linked to official national sources.

First Project: List Recent Orange and Red Earthquake Alerts

EnvironmentJSON +1No Key
German LHP Flood Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Current state flood-warning alerts from Germany's interregional LHP portal for reviewing official flood areas and update times.

First Project: Inspect Regional Flood Alerts

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
Global Forest Watch Tree Cover Loss
IntermediateTiny
Annual tree-cover loss statistics for building deforestation monitors and country comparison tools from satellite-derived forest change.

First Project: Rank Countries by 2023 Tree-Cover Loss

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
IGN Spain Earthquake RSS
BeginnerTiny
Spain's official IGN earthquake event headlines and coordinates for regional seismic context tools.

First Project: Review Recent Spanish Earthquakes

EnvironmentXMLNo Key
IMGW Poland Current Hydrology
BeginnerTiny
Current Polish river-station observations and official thresholds from IMGW for checking stage exceedance at reviewed gauges.

First Project: Inspect Polish River Thresholds

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
IMGW Poland Hydrological Bulletins
IntermediateTiny
Current official Polish hydrological warning bulletins from IMGW for reviewing affected regions, severity, and validity windows.

First Project: Inspect a Polish Hydrological Warning

EnvironmentTXTNo Key
IPMA Portuguese Weather Warnings
BeginnerTiny
Official Portuguese weather-warning JSON from IPMA for reviewing affected forecast areas, severity levels, and warning validity.

First Project: Inspect Five IPMA Warnings

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
IPMA Regional Seismic Observations
BeginnerTiny
Portuguese regional earthquake records for building a dated seismic context view around travel destinations.

First Project: Review Regional Seismic Context

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
IPMA Weather Station Observations
BeginnerTiny
Portuguese hourly station weather observations for building a local conditions display with explicit station context.

First Project: Show Nearby Station Weather

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
Italian DPC Flood-Criticality Bulletins
IntermediateTiny
Daily national hydrogeological and hydraulic criticality bulletins from Italy's Civil Protection Department for mapped alert-zone context.

First Project: Inspect One Italian Criticality Bulletin

EnvironmentTopoJSONNo Key
Krisinformation Sweden VMA Alerts
BeginnerTiny
Official Swedish important-public-announcement records from the Krisinformation open API for reviewing current local emergency warnings.

First Project: Inspect Current Swedish VMA Alerts

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Latvia Hydrometeorological Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Official Latvian weather and hydrological warning resources published by the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre for local alert review.

First Project: Inspect Latvian Warning Resources

EnvironmentJSON +1No Key
Luxembourg LU-Alert CAP Messages
IntermediateTiny
Official Luxembourg civil-alert messages published as CAP-LU files through the national open-data portal for tracking current civil emergencies.

First Project: Inspect Official Luxembourg Alerts

EnvironmentXMLNo Key
Met Eireann Weather Warnings
BeginnerTiny
Official Irish weather-warning JSON from Met Éireann for checking county regions, severity, and validity intervals.

First Project: Inspect Current Irish Weather Warnings

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
MET Norway Locationforecast
BeginnerTiny
Global point weather forecasts for building location-specific planning tools outside the U.S. National Weather Service footprint.

First Project: Inspect Oslo's Next Forecast Hours

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
MET Norway MetAlerts
IntermediateTiny
Official Norwegian weather warnings from MET Norway's MetAlerts service for reviewing affected areas and alert validity.

First Project: Inspect Norwegian Weather Alerts

EnvironmentGeoJSON +1No Key
Meteo LT Hydrology Observations
BeginnerTiny
Lithuanian river-station water levels and temperatures for dated local hydrology context tools.

First Project: Inspect One River Station

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
MeteoAlarm Country Atom Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Country Atom feeds of European weather warnings from MeteoAlarm for checking official alert publications and their validity windows.

First Project: Inspect One Country Warning Feed

EnvironmentAtomNo Key
NASA EONET Natural Events
BeginnerTiny
Curated NASA EONET natural-event metadata for reviewing wildfire, volcano, storm, and other recent event context.

First Project: Inspect Recent Natural Events

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
NASA FIRMS Active Fire Data
IntermediateSmall
Near-real-time satellite detections of active fires and thermal anomalies for monitoring hotspots, mapping risk, and supporting emergency analysis.

First Project: Locate Today's Strongest Thermal Anomalies

EnvironmentCSV +3Key
NASA POWER Daily Meteorology and Solar Data
IntermediateSmall
Global gridded daily meteorology and solar estimates for building renewable energy, agriculture, climate, and infrastructure planning tools.

First Project: Profile Daily Solar Resource at One Location

EnvironmentJSON +2No Key
National Weather Service API
BeginnerSmall
Current U.S. forecasts, observations, and official weather alerts for building local planning tools and operational warning products.

First Project: Flag Risky Hours for an Outdoor Plan

EnvironmentGeoJSON +2No Key
NOAA GML Mauna Loa CO2
BeginnerTiny
Monthly atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements from Mauna Loa for building climate-trend monitors and educational concentration trackers.

First Project: Chart Mauna Loa Monthly CO2

EnvironmentCSV +1No Key
NOAA HRRR-Smoke Forecast
IntermediateMedium
NOAA's operational high-resolution smoke-concentration forecast for building dated regional exposure context tools.

First Project: Inspect a Smoke Forecast Field

EnvironmentGRIB2No Key
NOAA IBTrACS Tropical Cyclones
IntermediateSmall
Global tropical-cyclone best-track positions and intensities for building storm-history maps and seasonal monitors.

First Project: Map Recent North Atlantic Storm Tracks

EnvironmentCSV +2No Key
NOAA NCEI Daily Summaries
IntermediateSmall
Station-level daily temperature, precipitation, snow, and weather summaries for building climate profiles and threshold-monitoring tools.

First Project: Count Hot Days at One Weather Station

EnvironmentJSON +2No Key
NOAA NDBC Buoy Observations
BeginnerTiny
Real-time marine weather and wave observations from moored buoys for building coastal condition monitors and marine-operations alerts.

First Project: Monitor One Atlantic Buoy

EnvironmentText +1No Key
NOAA Storm Events Database
IntermediateMedium
National Weather Service storm reports for building U.S. severe-weather history, loss, and event-type analysis tools.

First Project: Count 2025 Storm-Event Types in a Bounded Sample

EnvironmentCSVNo Key
NOAA SWPC Space Weather
BeginnerTiny
Operational geomagnetic and space-weather indices for building grid, radio, and satellite-environment monitors.

First Project: Flag Elevated Planetary K-Index Periods

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
NOAA Tides and Currents
IntermediateSmall
Official coastal water levels, tide predictions, currents, and station metadata for building harbor, shoreline, and marine-planning tools.

First Project: Compare Observed and Predicted Water Levels

EnvironmentJSON +2No Key
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals Station Archives
IntermediateTiny
NOAA's maintained 1991-2020 station climate-normal archives for comparing typical local temperature and precipitation.

First Project: Inspect a Station Climate Normal

EnvironmentTAR.GZ +1No Key
NSIDC Sea Ice Index
BeginnerTiny
Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice extent and concentration time series for building seasonal ice monitors and climate-comparison tools.

First Project: Track September Arctic Sea-Ice Extent

EnvironmentCSV +2No Key
NVE Norway Flood Warnings
IntermediateTiny
Official regional flood-warning records from Norway's NVE for inspecting affected municipalities, dates, and assessed activity levels.

First Project: Inspect Two Days of Flood Warnings

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Open-Meteo Air Quality Forecast
BeginnerTiny
Modeled European air-quality forecasts served by Open-Meteo for inspecting point-level AQI context under noncommercial free API terms.

First Project: Inspect a Modeled AQI Day

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Open-Meteo Marine Forecast
BeginnerTiny
Hourly offshore marine forecasts from Open-Meteo for coastal planning context under the free API's noncommercial use limit.

First Project: Inspect One Offshore Wave Forecast

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Open-Meteo Weather Forecast
BeginnerTiny
Hourly point weather forecasts from Open-Meteo for planning location-specific conditions panels, subject to noncommercial free API terms.

First Project: Inspect a One-Day Weather Forecast

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
OpenAQ Air Quality API
IntermediateTiny
Harmonized global air-quality measurements from public monitors for building multi-country pollution alerts outside a single national feed.

First Project: List Recent Monitors in One Country

EnvironmentJSONKey
OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations
BeginnerSmall
Federal disaster declarations, designated areas, incident periods, and authorized programs for building local emergency and recovery trackers.

First Project: Track Recent Declarations for One State

EnvironmentJSON +3No Key
OPW Ireland Water Levels
IntermediateTiny
Provisional Irish gauge-level observations from the Office of Public Works for local river context and station monitoring.

First Project: Check Recent Eligible Gauge Readings

EnvironmentGeoJSON +1No Key
Rijkswaterstaat Current Water Levels
IntermediateTiny
Current Dutch river and coastal station observations with quality and NAP-datum metadata for local water-level context tools.

First Project: Inspect One Water-Level Reading

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
SLF Avalanche Bulletins
BeginnerTiny
Swiss official avalanche bulletin GeoJSON for building a dated mountain hazard context map.

First Project: Map Dated Regional Warnings

EnvironmentGeoJSONNo Key
SMHI Water Shortage Messages
BeginnerTiny
Official Swedish water-shortage information messages from the impact-based warning API, with dated affected-area and validity metadata for local water-risk review.

First Project: Review Current Water Shortage Information

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
BeginnerTiny
Holocene volcano locations and eruption records for building global volcanic activity maps and nearby-hazard lookup tools.

First Project: Map Iceland's Holocene Volcanoes

EnvironmentExcel +2No Key
SYKE Hydrology Water Levels
IntermediateTiny
Finnish environmental OData water-level measurements for station-based hydrology monitoring and comparison across basins.

First Project: Inspect One Finnish Water Level

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
U.S. Drought Monitor
BeginnerTiny
Weekly U.S. drought-category statistics for building local agricultural, water, and risk-monitoring tools.

First Project: Track One State's Weekly Drought Coverage

EnvironmentJSON +2No Key
USGS Earthquake Catalog
BeginnerMedium
Continuously updated earthquake locations, magnitudes, depths, timestamps, and review status for monitoring seismic activity and spatial patterns.

First Project: Profile the Past Week's Earthquakes

EnvironmentGeoJSON +3No Key
USGS Water Data APIs
IntermediateSmall
Current and historical U.S. streamflow, groundwater, water-quality, and site measurements for building gauge monitors and local water-analysis tools.

First Project: Compare Current Streamflow with Its Recent Distribution

EnvironmentGeoJSON +2No Key
Vancouver Public Trees
BeginnerSmall
Public tree locations, species, dimensions, and planting dates for building urban forestry, biodiversity, and canopy equity maps.

First Project: Map Public Tree Diversity

EnvironmentCSV +2No Key
Vigicrues Flood Vigilance RSS
BeginnerTiny
French river flood-vigilance RSS items for building a dated regional river-warning view.

First Project: Map Dated Regional Warnings

EnvironmentRSSNo Key
Water Quality Portal
IntermediateSmall
Discrete water-quality sample results from USGS, EPA, and hundreds of partner agencies for building watershed monitoring and local water-quality tools.

First Project: Chart Recent Nitrate Samples at One Potomac Gauge

EnvironmentCSV +2No Key
WFIGS Current Wildfire Incidents
BeginnerTiny
Agency-reported U.S. current wildfire incident points from NIFC for inspecting incident identity, location, size, and update time.

First Project: Inspect Current U.S. Wildfire Points

EnvironmentJSONNo Key
WFIGS Current Wildfire Perimeters
BeginnerTiny
Agency-reported U.S. wildfire perimeter polygons from NIFC for mapping approximate current fire footprints.

First Project: Inspect Current U.S. Fire Perimeters

EnvironmentJSONNo Key