What is this?

KC Streets lets you search Kansas City's own 311 data to see every pothole report near any address – what was reported, when it was reported, and whether the city actually bothered to fix it. Type in your street, adjust the search radius, and get the full picture of what the city knows about (and what they've been ignoring).

Why it exists

Kansas City is legally responsible for maintaining its public streets. When they don't, you pay the price – blown tires, bent rims, busted suspensions, alignment jobs. And it's not like they don't know about the problems. Residents file thousands of 311 pothole reports every year. Some get fixed. Some sit open for months. Some just get quietly canceled with no explanation.

This site takes the city's own data and makes it easy to see how well – or how poorly – they're keeping up, block by block. No spin, no press releases. Just the numbers.

Your rights

If a pothole damages your vehicle, you don't just have to eat the cost. Under Missouri law, you can file a damage claim against the city. And here's the thing that matters: if the city knew about a pothole through a 311 report and didn't fix it in a reasonable time, that strengthens your case considerably.

That's exactly what this site helps you document. Search the location where you hit a pothole, and you'll see whether the city had prior reports – and how long they sat on them.

To file a claim, contact Kansas City's Risk Management Division through the City Clerk's office. You'll want your repair receipts, photos of the damage and the pothole, and the date and location of the incident. Having the 311 history from this site will be an important piece of documentation as well.

How to use the site

Pothole Lookup – Search any Kansas City address or click anywhere on the map. Adjust the radius slider to widen or narrow your search. You'll see every reported pothole in that area on the map, color-coded by status, with a full sortable table of results below.

Hall of Fame – A ranking of the city's most neglected potholes: the ones that have been open the longest, and the ones that took the most days to finally resolve. Updated live from the city's data.

Where the data comes from

Everything on this site is pulled live from KCMO's public 311 dataset through their open data portal. Nothing is scraped, cached, or editorialized. This is the city's own data, served straight back to you in a format that's actually useful.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or tips? Reach us at info@kcstreets.com.