A catastrophe adjusting firm's whole business runs on timing. A FEMA disaster declaration posts, claim volume spikes in that state within days, and the firms that get adjusters staffed and moving first pick up the assignments. A firm that finds out from the morning news, instead of the declaration itself, is already a step behind.
The declaration data is public the moment FEMA posts it. OpenFEMA runs a free API with every disaster declaration, searchable by state or incident type, fires, floods, hurricanes, severe storms. The problem isn't access, it's that nobody on a deployment or claims team is refreshing FEMA's site by hand waiting for the next one to post.
disaster-declaration-tracker turns that into a search. Give it a state, an incident type, or both, and get back the disaster number, declared programs, affected area, and a link to the full FEMA page, most recent first. Point it at your deployment footprint's states and it becomes an early-warning feed for exactly where crews need to move next.
It's billed per search, not per declaration returned, so watching a dozen states costs the same whether this week has one new declaration or none.
You can try a live search right now with no Apify account needed, or run it directly on Apify for your own states and schedule.
See it alongside the rest of the risk-monitoring actors in the portfolio, including Field Operations Risk Briefing for current ground-level weather and GPS/radio conditions once crews are deployed, and Earthquake Alert for a hazard type FEMA declarations don't cover on their own.