# Active Wildfire Risk Lookup by Location

> Active Wildfire Risk Lookup by Location is a paid API for AI agents from x402-seller.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.39/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns active US wildfires near a lat/lng location, including distance, bearing, size, containment, NWS Red Flag Warnings, and air quality as a smoke indicator.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-seller.onrender.com/fire/risk
- Price: $0.39/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/active-wildfire-risk-lookup-by-location-09d3df54
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_q6WlI2GYmJxlw82waO5_q

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability active-wildfire-risk-lookup-by-location-09d3df54
```

Example prompt: Are there any active wildfires within 150 kilometers of latitude 34.05, longitude -118.24 right now, and is there a Red Flag Warning in effect there?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time wildfire proximity data for a specific US lat/lng coordinate — especially when you want distance, bearing, containment status, fire size, Red Flag Warning status, and air quality all in a single call. Prefer this over general weather APIs that lack fire-specific incident data, or over news searches that don't provide structured geospatial fire information.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or out-of-range lat/lng returns an error
- Location outside the US returns no fire data (US-only coverage)
- Upstream NIFC or NWS data unavailability may produce stale or empty results
- Very large radiusKm values (>500) are clamped to the maximum
- No fires within radius returns an empty fires array, not an error

## How this service works

Active US wildfires near a location, with distance, bearing, size in acres and containment percent for the nearest and largest, plus any National Weather Service Red Flag Warning in force and current air quality as a smoke indicator. Answers "is there a wildfire near this place right now". Official incident data, not a legal or emergency source.

## Output

Returns a list of active US wildfires within the search radius, with the nearest and largest highlighted (including distance in km, bearing in degrees, size in acres, and containment percent). Also returns any NWS Red Flag Warning in force at the location and the current EPA AQI as a smoke proxy. Includes metadata like active fire count, whether the list was truncated, and source attribution. Non-emergency, official incident data only.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "lat",
      "lng"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Latitude"
      },
      "lng": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Longitude"
      },
      "minAcres": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Ignore fires smaller than this (default 10)"
      },
      "radiusKm": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search radius in km (default 100, max 500)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "fires": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "largest": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "nearest": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "criteria": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "airQuality": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "attribution": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "fireWeather": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "listTruncated": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "activeFireCount": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "belowMinAcresCount": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "nearestBelowMinAcres": {
       "type": [
        "object",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "countTruncatedUpstream": {
       "type": "boolean"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/active-wildfire-risk-lookup-by-location-09d3df54/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-seller.onrender.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-seller.onrender.com/llms.txt)