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Data sources and attribution

The public data sources we show and the exact credit each one requires.

U.S. public-domain data

National Weather Service / NOAA — forecasts and alerts. US federal public-domain data.

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates; estimates are not a current census count. U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns; establishments are not monthly openings. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS cannot vouch for downstream data or analysis; retrieval date shown.

FEMA OpenFEMA; disaster declarations are not live emergency warnings. FEMA does not endorse any product or service.

Open licences

Wikipedia contributors, Duluth, Minnesota; CC BY-SA 4.0; source revision linked; plain-text excerpt; whitespace normalized. Excerpts may be reused under the same licence.

Wikidata contributors; CC0 structured facts.

© OpenStreetMap contributors; ODbL 1.0.

How we show it

Public-source items appear only in their own labelled sections, with the source and retrieval date, and are never presented as our own reporting or as a Business Record.

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