Disasters & Alerts

Disasters on TerraPulse are organized into the fema Eventdex — one slot per federal disaster declaration, each a record of an event the government formally declared, drawn from FEMA and set against the context of live National Weather Service public alerts. No estimates, no forecasts.

The dexes

The record lives in a single Eventdex. Counts are live and grow as new declarations are issued:

That is 5,212 declared disasters, spanning the modern declaration record and updating as new events are declared.

Provenance

Every declaration traces to FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose disaster-declaration record is the authoritative list of major disasters, emergencies, and fire-management declarations. That backbone sits alongside live NWS public alerts for real-time context. The FEMA source is registered against the dex, so any record carries a direct line back to the originating declaration.

What’s in a record

Each declaration slot carries:

• Disaster — declaration number and incident type (hurricane, flood, fire, and so on)
• Location — state, and the counties covered by the declaration
• Timing — incident begin and end dates, and the declaration date
• Programs — the assistance programs the declaration activated