Facts and risk
get_live_hazardsWarnings and events in force now: England's flood warnings, US weather warnings, and worldwide earthquake shaking, hurricanes, floods, wildfires and volcanoes, with kind, level, area, times and outline.
Usual chain: get_live_hazards → check_live_hazards → render_map with a live_hazards layer
Coverage: England (Environment Agency), the US (National Weather Service), and worldwide: earthquakes M4.5+ of the past week with a ShakeMap (USGS), Atlantic and Pacific storms (National Hurricane Center), and GDACS floods, wildfires, volcanoes and other cyclones (automatic estimates). Refreshed every 10 minutes.
Basis: the issuers' own warning, forecast and footprint areas
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The warnings and events in force right now, refreshed every 10 minutes: England's flood warnings and alerts (Environment Agency); the US National Weather Service's warnings an insurer watches (tornado, severe thunderstorm, flood and flash flood, coastal flood and storm surge, hurricane and tropical storm, high wind, winter storm, fire weather); and worldwide: earthquakes of the past week with the area of each shaking level (USGS ShakeMap, intensity V to VIII+), active Atlantic and Pacific storms (National Hurricane Center: winds now at 34, 50 and 64 knots, the 5-day forecast cone, and where the winds have already been), and GDACS's floods, wildfires, volcanoes and the cyclones elsewhere (automatic estimates, rated a step lower). Each with its kind (warning: in force now; forecast: where it may go; footprint: where it has already hit, the claims view), level (severe, warning, watch, advisory), area, times and source link; the map shows their outlines. Which of the user's own places are affected: check_live_hazards. A map to keep with them: render_map with a live_hazards layer (beside the user's own layers). Set render to true only when the user wants to keep or share the map: it returns a link, GeoJSON and KML, and update_map can change it later.
Captured from the live server on 2026-10-13, trimmed to the first rows.
Request
{
"region": "us",
"min_level": "warning"
}The answer's first line
7 warnings in force (7 warning): 7 flood
The answer (trimmed)
{
"fetched_at": {
"us": "2026-10-13T15:50:21.269Z"
},
"summary": {
"in_force": 7,
"by_level": {
"warning": 7
},
"by_peril": {
"flood": 7
},
"by_region": {
"us": 7
}
},
"hazards": [
{
"id": "nws-781b614c975339bd9c49",
"region": "us",
"peril": "flood",
"level": "warning",
"label": "Flood Warning",
"area": "Brantley, GA",
"issued": "2026-10-13T09:44:00-04:00",
"expires": "2026-10-14T09:45:00-04:00",
"message": "Flood Warning issued October 13 at 9:44AM EDT by NWS Jacksonville FL",
"link": "https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.7414d44ef8a33988ac09b31b44c38b584c49a611.001.1",
"center": {
"lat": 31.2375,
"lng": -81.8717
}
},
{
"id": "nws-3ed54624bd99493275ba",
"region": "us",
"peril": "flood",
"level": "warning",
"label": "Flood Warning",
"area": "Calcasieu, LA",
"issued": "2026-10-12T21:21:00-05:00",
"expires": "2026-10-15T13:00:00-05:00",
"message": "Flood Warning issued October 12 at 9:21PM CDT until October 15 at 1:00PM CDT by NWS Lake Charles LA",
"link": "https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.8c39b0a475d4541f891e248563cc28d2eb7d8526.002.1",
"center": {
"lat": 30.3135,
"lng": -93.1501
}
},
{
"id": "nws-9ed128f9f47fbbc7adbc",
"region": "us",
"peril": "flood",
"level": "warning",
"label": "Flood Warning",
"area": "Calhoun, SC; Lexington, SC; Richland, SC",
"issued": "2026-10-13T11:08:00-04:00",
"expires": "2026-10-15T09:53:00-04:00",
"message": "Flood Warning issued October 13 at 11:08AM EDT until October 15 at 9:53AM EDT by NWS Columbia SC",
"link": "https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.9bbe987a3f2bc9745311d5a224438adc80fc59de.002.1",
"center": {
"lat": 33.875,
"lng": -80.9727
}
},
"… 4 more"
],
"sources": [
{
"name": "US National Weather Service active alerts",
"as_of": "2026-10-13T15:50:21.269Z"
}
],
"run": {
"tool": "get_live_hazards",
"at": "2026-10-13T15:59:34.592Z",
"sources": [
{
"name": "US National Weather Service active alerts",
"as_of": "2026-10-13T15:50:21.269Z"
}
],
"basis": "the issuers' own warning areas"
}
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