# kanari wildfires (remote · kanari.io)

Live worldwide wildfire detections, fire archive, citable stats, aircraft. Free, CC BY 4.0.

- Trust score: 79/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +2
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-24

## Components

- remote · `kanari.io`: 79/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://kanari.io/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-24.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 6 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1056 tokens (~132/item across 8 items; 6 tools + 2 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **Tool Coverage**: 79/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 38% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the kanari wildfires MCP server?

kanari wildfires is a hosted endpoint at https://kanari.io/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires 'https://kanari.io/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires": {
      "url": "https://kanari.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://kanari.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires]
url = "https://kanari.io/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://kanari.io/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires --url 'https://kanari.io/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires:
    url: "https://kanari.io/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://kanari.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires -t streamable-http -u 'https://kanari.io/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://kanari.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-23 (score 79, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-09-22 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-19 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-17 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-15 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-13 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-11 (score 74, +1)

- [security] Tool “earliness_cases” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “firefighting_aircraft” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-09-09 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (6)

### `active_fires` (~212 tokens)

Active wildfires right now

Fire clusters detected by satellite over the last N hours (default 24), worldwide or filtered by ISO-2 country, bounding box, or a point with a radius. Returns up to `limit` clusters ranked by relevance (corroborated and recent first). Use for 'is there a fire near X right now' or 'wildfires in <country> today'. Each cluster: position, first/last satellite pass (UTC), detections per sensor, peak fire radiative power (MW), confidence (possible | probable | corrobore = cross-checked with witnesses).

Input parameters:

- `bbox` (array): [minLon, minLat, maxLon, maxLat]
- `country` (string): ISO-2 country code, e.g. FR, US, BR
- `hours`: Time window in hours: 6, 12, 24, 48 or 72
- `limit` (integer)
- `near` (object): Only clusters within radiusKm of this point

### `fire_archive_search` (~187 tokens)

Search the wildfire archive

Search kanari's archive of significant wildfires (since 2026-08-03): by ISO-2 country, date range or month, minimum detections or power, status. Each result has a permanent page URL (kanari.io/fr/feu/<slug>). Use for 'what fires happened in <country> in <month>', 'biggest fires this week', 'is the fire near X still active'.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string)
- `from` (string): first detection on or after this UTC date
- `limit` (integer)
- `min_detections` (integer)
- `min_frp_mw` (number)
- `month` (string): shortcut for a calendar month, YYYY-MM
- `order` (string)
- `status` (string)
- `to` (string): first detection before this UTC date

### `fire_details` (~67 tokens)

Details of one archived wildfire

Full record of an archived fire by its slug (from fire_archive_search or a kanari.io/fr/feu/<slug> URL): timeline, detections per sensor, peak power, status, witness posts, first press article, aircraft observed on zone.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `wildfire_stats` (~123 tokens)

Wildfire statistics (citable figures)

Aggregated figures from kanari's archive for a period (today, 7d, 30d, a calendar month, or all since 2026-08-03), worldwide or for one ISO-2 country: number of significant fires, active ones, fires with witnesses or aircraft, peak power, daily series, most affected countries and French departments, biggest fires with URLs. Includes a ready-to-cite sentence with the source.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string)
- `month` (string): required when period = month
- `period` (string)

### `firefighting_aircraft` (~103 tokens)

Firefighting aircraft in flight

Near real-time ADS-B positions of water bombers and firefighting helicopters worldwide (Canadair CL-415/CL-215, Air Tractor Fire Boss, DC-10 / BAe 146 tankers, S-64 Air Crane, Firehawk…). Optional ISO-2 filter on the aircraft's country of registration. Coverage and aircraft identification are incomplete; some equipped helicopters also operate at night.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string)
- `limit` (integer)

### `earliness_cases` (~67 tokens)

Measured lead over press coverage

Automatic geographic matches between satellite and press timestamps over 72 h. Includes positive and negative gaps; median over all valid matches. Not kanari alert publication time, not proof of distinct fires or a lead over emergency services. Source article links when available.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-24: 79
- 2026-09-23: 79
- 2026-09-22: 79
- 2026-09-21: 78
- 2026-09-20: 78
- 2026-09-19: 78
- 2026-09-18: 77
- 2026-09-17: 77
- 2026-09-16: 76
- 2026-09-15: 76
- 2026-09-14: 75
- 2026-09-13: 75
- 2026-09-12: 74
- 2026-09-11: 74
- 2026-09-10: 73
- 2026-09-09: 73
- 2026-09-08: 72
- 2026-09-07: 72
- 2026-09-06: 71
- 2026-09-05: 71
- 2026-09-04: 71
- 2026-09-03: 70
- 2026-09-02: 70
- 2026-09-01: 69
- 2026-08-31: 69
- 2026-08-30: 68
- 2026-08-29: 68
- 2026-08-28: 67
- 2026-08-27: 67
- 2026-08-26: 66

## Common questions

### What is the kanari wildfires MCP server?

kanari wildfires is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.vria-consulting/kanari-wildfires. Live worldwide wildfire detections, fire archive, citable stats, aircraft. Free, CC BY 4.0. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://kanari.io/api/mcp).

### Is the kanari wildfires MCP server safe to use?

kanari wildfires scores 79 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the kanari wildfires MCP server expose?

kanari wildfires exposes 6 tools: active_fires, fire_archive_search, fire_details, wildfire_stats, firefighting_aircraft, earliness_cases. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 759 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the kanari wildfires MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to kanari wildfires without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the kanari wildfires MCP server still maintained?

kanari wildfires is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://kanari.io/api/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/vria-consulting/vria-fire-detect
- Website: https://kanari.io/en/api
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/vria-consulting-kanari-wildfires/api-mcp