Coming soon

Every warning in Australia.
One API.

The data behind FireWatch AU, cleaned, checked and in one shape: official fires and warnings from every state and territory, fire danger and bans, satellite heat and the layers around them.

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Example

GET /v1/warnings?state=nsw&level=watchAndAct

{
  "generatedAt": "2026-11-02T04:12:30Z",
  "sources": [{
    "id": "nswRFS",
    "phase": "fresh",
    "confirmedAt": "2026-11-02T04:12:01Z",
    "attribution": "© State of New South Wales (NSW RFS)…",
    "licence": "CC BY 4.0"
  }],
  "warnings": [{
    "id": "nswRFS:000000",
    "level": "watchAndAct",
    "hazard": "fire",
    "kind": "bushfire",
    "title": "Example Road, Example Creek",
    "status": "Out of control",
    "issuedBy": "NSW RFS",
    "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T03:58:00Z",
    "advice": "Monitor conditions…",
    "area": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": […] }
  }]
}

Illustrative only: the shape may change before launch.

One shape for every agency

Eight state and territory agencies publish fires and warnings in eight different formats. The API gives you all of them in one consistent schema, with stable ids.

Levels only as issued

Advice, Watch and Act and Emergency Warning come only from the agency's own level field, never inferred from a status, a size or a headline.

Freshness on every source

Each source says when it was last confirmed with its publisher and whether it's current, stale or down, so a failed feed never reads as "no fires".

Beyond warnings

Fire danger ratings and total fire bans, satellite heat, road closures, power outages, air quality, planned burns and more, on the same footing.

Credits included

Every response carries each publisher's attribution, licence and disclaimer, so you can show the data the way its owners ask.

Fast and kind to publishers

Served from our edge cache, fetched once for everyone. Your traffic never lands on an agency's site.

Built for

Councils and emergency teamsDashboards and alerts for your area, across state borders.

Businesses with people in the fieldKnow when a warning covers a site, a route or a crew.

Researchers and newsroomsConsistent records across agencies, with history to come.

DevelopersBuild the app or integration you wish existed.

Request early access

We're opening the API to a small group first. Tell us what you'd build and we'll be in touch.

Free while in early access
Each publisher's licence and credit travel with the data
Not an official warning service: always point people to the agencies

Every warning in Australia.One API.