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Krisinformation Sweden VMA Alerts

Official Swedish important-public-announcement records from the Krisinformation open API for reviewing current local emergency warnings.

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At a Glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Tiny · ≤0.01 GB
Formats
JSON
Access
API
API Key
Not Required
Provider
Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency
Updates
Near Real Time
Last Verified
Sep 28, 2026
Source Type
Government Source
Data Terms
Open API for public and commercial applications; cite Krisinformation.se as the source.
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From Source to Product Signal

Test a Product Idea in Four Steps

Krisinformation.se exposes current VMA public announcements through its version 3 API. Start with one request and read up to five current records; an empty response says only that this scoped endpoint returned none. Attribute any displayed message and check location and validity before treating it as a local warning.

1

Check the Setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • An internet connection
  • The requests Python package
2

Access the Data

  1. 1.Read the official open-data description and attribution rule.
  2. 2.Request the version 3 VMA endpoint once.
  3. 3.Inspect region, issue time, and status of any returned announcement.
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3

Run the Python Example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install requests

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.krisinformation.se/v3/vmas",
    params={"allCounties": "true", "language": "en"}, timeout=30,
)
response.raise_for_status()
alerts = response.json()
print(f"{len(alerts)} VMA records returned")
for alert in alerts[:5]:
    print(alert.get("Identifier"), alert.get("Updated"), alert.get("Counties"))
4

Test a Useful Signal

Inspect Current Swedish VMA Alerts

Check a scoped official response before local alert matching.

  1. 01Preserve announcement identifiers, region, issue time, and updates.
  2. 02Link to Krisinformation.se and credit the source.
  3. 03Do not infer nationwide safety from an empty response.

Related Datasets

Dataset Details

Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency is a government source. Last verified 2026-09-28. Temporal coverage: current official VMA announcements.

Geography

Sweden

Formats

JSON

Provider

Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency

Data Terms

Open API for public and commercial applications; cite Krisinformation.se as the source.

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