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Sort the national list by size (BIG GRASS in Malheur County, Oregon: 578,637 acres, 94% contained, 226 personnel), filter by state, type, minimum acres or active-only, ask for incidents within a radius of any point (Boise → the SHEEP fire, 45 km away, discovered an hour ago), or pull per-state totals. Safety and evacuation apps, insurance risk, logistics routing, air-quality context, newsrooms and dashboards — the same feed fire agencies use, without the GIS wrangling. US coverage.", "contact": { "name": "Data and APIs", "url": "https://dataandapis.com/contact" }, "termsOfService": "https://dataandapis.com/terms-of-service", "license": { "name": "Data and APIs Terms of Service", "url": "https://dataandapis.com/terms-of-service" }, "x-logo": { "url": "https://dataandapis.com/images/wildfires.webp" } }, "externalDocs": { "description": "Documentation, live tester and pricing", "url": "https://dataandapis.com/apis/wildfires" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api-wildfires.dataandapis.com" } ], "tags": [ { "name": "Monitoring", "description": "Wildfires API belongs to the Monitoring category of the Data and APIs catalog." } ], "paths": { "/v1/wildfires": { "get": { "operationId": "currentWildfires", "summary": "Current Wildfires", "description": "Current Wildfires endpoint of the Wildfires API. 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