Environment & Hazards

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

Start with a bounded place and one signal, then decide whether the product needs a watch, a map, or a status board.

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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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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