MCP server exposing 3 tools for nasa-firms.
This URL is a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint over HTTP. Issue POST requests with a JSON-RPC body. Browsers and search crawlers land here on GET.
POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-firms/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}firms_hotspots_area — "Where are the wildfires in California right now" / "active fire detections over Greece this week" — satellite thermal-anomaly (active fire) detections inside a bounding box, from NASA FIRMS. AUTHORITATIVE for where something is actually burning right now: these are pixels a MODIS or VIIRS sensor measured as hot, published within ~3 hours of overpass, not a news report about a fire. Returns latitude/longitude, acquisition date and UTC time, brightness temperature, fire radiative power (MW), confidence, satellite and day/night flag. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for current fire locations and extent.firms_hotspots_near — "Are there any fires near Boulder, Colorado?" / "active fire detections within 50 km of this point" — NASA FIRMS satellite hotspot detections around a latitude/longitude, sorted nearest first with the distance in km. Same measured detections as firms_hotspots_area, addressed the way a question about a place is actually asked. Returns distance_km, position, acquisition time, brightness temperature, fire radiative power and confidence.firms_data_availability — Which dates each NASA FIRMS satellite product actually covers — the first and last date available per sensor, for near-real-time and standard-processing streams. Call this before querying a historical date so an empty hotspot result can be read as "outside the archive" rather than "no fires".Code samples (curl / TypeScript / one-click client install), schemas, and the live playground are on the pack page:
https://pipeworx.io/packs/nasa-firms/
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