Guides
Disasters
Use GDACS disaster alerts in country signals to surface current flood, cyclone, wildfire, earthquake, and volcanic-risk context.
Current Disaster Context
Africa API exposes current GDACS disaster alerts inside:
GET /v1/countries/{country_code}/signals
Read each alert's event dates, severity, and source links before using it in a country summary.
Fields
Each disaster alert can include:
event_keyevent_typenamedescriptionalert_levelalert_scoreseverity_valueseverity_textseverity_unitevent_from_atevent_to_atsource_modified_atreport_urldetails_urlsource_systemsourcefreshness
Example
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/mz/signals" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"The following example illustrates the alert fields. Its values are not a current event report.
{
"disaster_alerts": [
{
"event_key": "1102919:1:fl:mz",
"event_type": "FL",
"name": "Flooding in Mozambique",
"description": "Heavy rain and flooding conditions",
"alert_level": "orange",
"alert_score": 2.4,
"severity_value": 120.0,
"severity_text": "Heavy rain",
"severity_unit": "mm/24h",
"event_from_at": "2026-03-13T09:00:00Z",
"event_to_at": "2026-03-16T09:00:00Z",
"source_modified_at": "2026-03-13T10:30:00Z",
"report_url": "https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1102919",
"details_url": "https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1102919&episodeid=1",
"source_system": "GDACS",
"source": "gdacs_disaster_alerts",
"freshness": "current"
}
]
}