State guide

ACT emergency data: sources and coverage

The ACT is a small territory with one quiet trap: its coordinates arrive in the opposite order to the GeoJSON standard, as strings. Miss it and every Canberra incident maps to the wrong place entirely.

Overview

The Australian Capital Territory publishes emergency data through the Emergency Services Agency (ESA): current incidents over RSS, a richer all-incidents JSON feed, and fire danger ratings over RSS.

Available feeds

Feed	Format	Update	Coverage
ACT ESA Current Incidents	RSS	60 sec	All incident types
ACT ESA All Incidents	JSON	60 sec	Roughly four times the volume, including ambulance responses and hazard reduction burns
ACT ESA Fire Danger	RSS	15 min	Fire danger ratings

Integration notes

Agencies: ESA-CURRENT (incidents over RSS), ESA-ALL (the JSON incidents feed), ESA-FDR (fire danger ratings).
Coordinates: The critical one. ACT returns coordinates as strings in [lat, lng] order, the opposite of the GeoJSON [lng, lat] standard. Swap them and convert from strings to numbers.
Timestamps: "DD Mon YYYY HH:MM:SS.mmm" with abbreviated month names and optional milliseconds, so it needs custom parsing.
Auth: All three feeds are public. No authentication required.