Planet makes available select imagery for major disaster events, including major earthquakes, floods, storms, wildfires, and human-made disasters. These are available here in a STAC Catalog under a CC-BY-NC license. See the Planet Disaster Data page for more information.
Imagery from the Planet Crisis Response Program for major disaster events — earthquakes, floods, storms, wildfires and human-made disasters — as a single browsable catalog. Each event is a self-contained sub-catalog with pre- and post-event high-resolution COGs (visual, pansharpened-analytic and usable-data masks), organised by affected location. Imagery © Planet Labs PBC, licensed CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial).
This is a Portolan / STAC catalog: the umbrella
root (catalog.json) links to one self-contained sub-catalog per disaster event, and new
events are added as new sub-catalogs.
Planet imagery of the M7.4 earthquake that struck western Colombia on 10 August 2026 at 12:34 UTC, with an epicentre 5 km south of San José del Palmar, Chocó (4.844°N, 76.242°W) at 110 km depth.
Post-fire Planet SkySat imagery of the Gironde/Landes Atlantic wildfire complex near Bordeaux, southwestern France (the Le Porge → Arès run of the July 2026 fires).
Planet Crisis Response Program imagery documenting the 24 June 2026 earthquake that struck Venezuela's coast, causing extensive damage in Caracas, La Guaira, Catia La Mar, Puerto Cabello, Valencia, Ocumare de la Costa and Yumare.
Planet Crisis Response Program imagery documenting the 8 June 2026 earthquake in the southern Philippines (Mindanao).
Planet Crisis Response Program imagery documenting Hurricane Melissa's impact on Jamaica.
Browse the whole catalog in the Portolan browser, or open
https://data.source.coop/planet/disasterdata/catalog.json in any STAC browser.
Explore with AI. Point Claude Code or another agent at llms.txt (each event has its own too) and ask it to query the data, make maps, or compare pre/post-event imagery.
Query with DuckDB. Every collection has a STAC-GeoParquet items.parquet index of its
scenes (id, datetime, geometry, cloud cover, asset hrefs):
Open a COG. Asset hrefs are absolute public URLs — stream just the pixels you need with
/vsicurl, rio-tiler, rasterio or GDAL, no download or API key required.
Imagery © Planet Labs PBC — Crisis Response Program (CC BY-NC 4.0). Contact: crisis-response@planet.com.