publicsafetyapi.dev — US Public Safety Facilities API

# publicsafetyapi.dev — LLM Reference publicsafetyapi.dev is a REST API for US public safety facilities: police stations, fire stations, hospitals, and EMS bases. Built on HIFLD (Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data), maintained by DHS/CISA. Public domain, commercially usable. Base URL: https://api.publicsafetyapi.dev Current version: v1 Data vintage: HIFLD 2024 (loaded May 2026) Coverage: 50,000+ facilities across the United States. Facility types: fire, police, hospital, ems --- ## Authentication Pass an API key on every request using one of: Header: X-API-Key: psk_live_... Header: Authorization: Bearer psk_live_... API keys are obtained free at https://publicsafetyapi.dev/dashboard (500 requests/month, no credit card). GET https://api.publicsafetyapi.dev/v1/health does NOT require an API key. --- ## Rate Limits | Plan | Per minute | Per month | |------------|------------|-----------| | Free | 10 | 500 | | Starter | 60 | 10,000 | | Pro | 120 | 50,000 | | Growth | 300 | 200,000 | Exceeding per-minute limit → 429 RATE_LIMITED Exceeding monthly limit → 402 QUOTA_EXCEEDED Monthly quotas reset on the 1st of each calendar month. --- ## Response Envelope Every successful response uses this envelope: { "data": <object or array>, "meta": { "requestId": "req_a1b2c3d4", "creditsUsed": 1, "creditsRemaining": 499 }, "source": { "dataVersion": "2026-05", "updatedAt": "2026-05-27" } } Field names in responses are camelCase (e.g. entityType, distanceMiles, jurisdictionNote). Each API call costs 1 credit regardless of results returned. --- ## Facility Types fire Fire stations (HIFLD Fire Stations dataset) police Police/law enforcement locations (HIFLD Local Law Enforcement Locations) hospital Hospitals (HIFLD Hospitals) ems EMS stations (HIFLD EMS Stations) --- ## Endpoints ### GET https://api.publicsafetyapi.dev/v1/stations/ne