Locus Air Quality History
by api.locus.report in Developer tools
EPA AQS annual monitors, exact-point NOAA HMS satellite smoke days, and separate CDC county modeled PM2.5 when a year lacks nearby AQS PM2.5. For past air context. Missing mirror years are disclosed, not treated as clean air; no source-fire attribution or property safety finding. npx @velinussage/locus-agent-skill add.
https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history- Price
- $0.05
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 1.5 s
- 3.4 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 56 min ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history
Each call costs $0.05 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history
content-type: application/json
{
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
address | string | No | |
latitude | number | No | |
longitude | number | No | |
radiusKm | integer | No | |
yearsBack | integer | No |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 91 lines
{
"aqs": {
"annualMonitorSummaries": [
{
"distanceKm": 1,
"parameter": "example",
"parameterCode": "example",
"poc": "example",
"pollutantStandard": "example",
"recordId": "example",
"siteId": "example",
"units": "example",
"year": -9007199254740991
}
],
"availableYears": [
-9007199254740991
],
"provenance": {
"datasetPage": "https://example.gov/record",
"sourceName": "example",
"sourceUrl": "https://example.gov/record"
}
},
"caveats": [
"example"
],
"cdcGapFill": {
"filledYears": [
-9007199254740991
],
"modeledAnnualPm25": [
{
"countyFips5": "example",
"countyName": "example",
"year": -9007199254740991
}
],
"provenance": {
"datasetPage": "https://example.gov/record",
"sourceName": "example",
"sourceUrl": "https://example.gov/record"
}
},
"componentStatus": [
{
"component": "aqs_monitors",
"status": "ok"
}
],
"generatedAt": "2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z",
"hmsSmoke": {
"annualSummaries": [
{
"densityDays": {
"heavy": -9007199254740991,
"light": -9007199254740991,
"medium": -9007199254740991,
"unknown": -9007199254740991
},
"observedDays": -9007199254740991,
"polygonCount": -9007199254740991,
"year": -9007199254740991
}
],
"availableYears": [
-9007199254740991
],
"observedDates": [
"2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z"
],
"provenance": {
"datasetPage": "https://example.gov/record",
"sourceName": "example",
"sourceUrl": "https://example.gov/record"
}
},
"kind": "air_quality_history",
"period": {
"endYear": -9007199254740991,
"requestedYears": [
-9007199254740991
],
"startYear": -9007199254740991
},
"point": {
"latitude": 1,
"longitude": 1
},
"searchRadiusKm": 1
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.locus.report%2Fapi%2Flocus-air-quality-history&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.locus.report/api/locus-air-quality-history",
json={
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 min ago | Passed | 402 | 98 ms | $0.05 |
| 5 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.5 s | $0.05 |
| 9 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.7 s | $0.05 |
| 14 h ago | Passed | 402 | 301 ms | $0.05 |
| 18 h ago | Passed | 402 | 66 ms | $0.05 |
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| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 340 ms | $0.05 |
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