GovBot Public Lands & Wildfire

Lists current wildland fire perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center WFIGS Current Interagency Fire Perimeters service, in one state (by point-of-origin state), within a radius of a latitude/longitude point (default 50 km, at most 300 km), or both; largest perimeter first, 25 per page by default and at most 100. Each record carries the incident name and type (wildfire, prescribed fire or incident complex), perimeter acres, reported incident size, percent contained, discovery date, perimeter date, the date the source polygon record was last edited, the incident record's last update, point-of-origin state, county and coordinates, jurisdictional agency and the IRWIN and unique fire identifiers. The service holds incidents not yet declared contained, controlled or out, and drops incidents without updates for 3 to 14 days depending on size. Perimeters are provisional. A state, a point, or both are required.

list_active_fire_perimeters

Returns one current wildland fire perimeter from the National Interagency Fire Center WFIGS Current Interagency Fire Perimeters service, by IRWIN identifier (a GUID) or unique fire identifier (for example 2026-CALPF-002271): incident name and type, perimeter and reported acres, percent contained, discovery, perimeter, polygon-record-edit and incident-update times, mapping method, point of origin (state, county, coordinates, landowner category, jurisdictional and protecting agencies), general cause where reported, incident complexity level, personnel, complex membership and the matching-identifier bounding box. Selects the most recently edited source record from a page of at most five matches, with the fetched count and any source transfer-limit flag; these are not a total matching-record count. An identifier absent from the current service is reported as not current; perimeters leave the service when the incident is declared contained, controlled or out, when its fire report is certified, or after the size-based update window.

get_fire_perimeter

Returns the protected areas from the USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US 4.1) that contain one latitude/longitude point or lie within an optional radius of it (up to 10000 meters), largest first, at most 50: unit name, category (fee ownership, easement, designation, marine, proclamation boundary or other), manager name and type, owner name, designation type, GAP status (1-4 conservation management intent), IUCN category, public access, state, GIS acres, year established and source date, with the PAD-US version, data edit date and retrieval time. PAD-US records overlap: one location can sit in a fee parcel, a designation such as a wilderness area and a proclamation boundary at once.

get_protected_areas_at_point

Searches USGS PAD-US 4.1 protected-area records whose unit name contains the given text (case-insensitive), optionally within one state and one PAD-US category, largest first, 25 per page by default and at most 100, with the total count and a cursor for the next page. Each record carries unit name, category, manager name and type, owner name, designation type, GAP status, IUCN category, public access, state, GIS acres, year established and source date. One named area is often several records (separate parcels, categories or states).

search_protected_areas

Returns the surface managing agency of the land at one latitude/longitude point from the Bureau of Land Management national Surface Management Agency (SMA) map service: the administering department and agency (for example Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Defense, Bureau of Indian Affairs, state or local government), the agency codes, the administrative unit name and the administrative state where recorded, with the publisher, service, layer and retrieval time. The SMA map covers the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands; it classifies federal land by its active surface managing agency and leaves most non-federal land as private or undetermined. A point with no SMA polygon is reported as unmapped.

get_land_manager_at_point