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Description
Over 1,800 federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies are designated to alert the public of disasters and threats using the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS). The dataset lists these Alerting Authorities, which are managed by the Department of Homeland Security and were last updated in June 2025.
Use Cases
Map the distribution of Alerting Authorities across federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions to analyze emergency coverage.
Analyze the organizational structure of the over 1,800 Alerting Authorities to support inter-agency coordination planning.
Identify the designated authority types (e.g., federal, tribal) for jurisdictional analysis of public warning systems.
Strengths
Lists over 1,800 distinct Alerting Authorities, providing a substantial directory.
Maintained by the authoritative Department of Homeland Security, ensuring official status.
Updated recently in June 2025, indicating current administrative data.
Limitations
The specific data schema, including column names and row count, is unknown, limiting immediate analytical use.
Lacks detailed temporal coverage or historical records for tracking authority changes over time.
Geographic coverage for each authority is not specified in the provided description.
Provenance
Source
Department of Homeland Security
Freshness
Last updated on 2025-06-07.
Geography
United States (implied from federal, state, local, tribal, territorial jurisdictions).
License is listed as 'other-license-specified'; users must review specific terms before use. The lack of defined columns or sample data requires schema discovery upon download.