affectedZones URLs are incorrect and lead to 404s

[nebain]

NWS Albany issued an SPS for zone NYZ207>209. These are fire zones, but the API is returning the affectedZones URLs as forecast zones.

affectedZones includes https://api.weather.gov/zones/forecast/NYZ207 which gives a 404. It should be https://api.weather.gov/zones/fire/NYZ207 instead.

{
  "@context": [
    "https://geojson.org/geojson-ld/geojson-context.jsonld",
    {
      "@version": "1.1",
      "wx": "https://api.weather.gov/ontology#",
      "@vocab": "https://api.weather.gov/ontology#"
    }
  ],
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "id": "https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.97a23b93612a0a69f7d266da8fcc0d8b373840c1.001.1",
      "type": "Feature",
      "geometry": null,
      "properties": {
        "@id": "https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.97a23b93612a0a69f7d266da8fcc0d8b373840c1.001.1",
        "@type": "wx:Alert",
        "id": "urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.97a23b93612a0a69f7d266da8fcc0d8b373840c1.001.1",
        "areaDesc": "",
        "geocode": {
          "UGC": [
            "NYZ207",
            "NYZ208",
            "NYZ209"
          ]
        },
        "affectedZones": [
          "https://api.weather.gov/zones/forecast/NYZ207",
          "https://api.weather.gov/zones/forecast/NYZ208",
          "https://api.weather.gov/zones/forecast/NYZ209"
        ],
        "references": [],
        "sent": "2025-04-16T20:06:00-04:00",
        "effective": "2025-04-16T20:06:00-04:00",
        "onset": "2025-04-16T20:06:00-04:00",
        "expires": "2025-04-17T20:00:00-04:00",
        "ends": null,
        "status": "Actual",
        "messageType": "Alert",
        "category": "Met",
        "severity": "Moderate",
        "certainty": "Observed",
        "urgency": "Expected",
        "event": "Special Weather Statement",
        "sender": "w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov",
        "senderName": "NWS Albany NY",
        "headline": "Special Weather Statement issued April 16 at 8:06PM EDT by NWS Albany NY",
        "description": "West to northwest winds gusting up to 25 mph combined with\nrelative humidities falling to below 30 percent in the afternoon\nwill contribute to an elevated risk of fire spread Thursday. The\nrisk will be highest across the middle and upper Hudson Valley\nand Catskills regions which include the Capital Region, the Lake\nGeorge and Saratoga region, as well as the mid Hudson Valley,\nTaconics and southeast Catskills.\n\nThe annual statewide burn ban is in effect until May 14. No burn\npermits are issued.",
        "instruction": null,
        "response": "Execute",
        "parameters": {
          "AWIPSidentifier": [
            "SPSALY"
          ],
          "WMOidentifier": [
            "WWUS81 KALY 170006"
          ],
          "NWSheadline": [
            "Elevated Risk of Fire Spread Thursday"
          ],
          "BLOCKCHANNEL": [
            "EAS",
            "NWEM",
            "CMAS"
          ],
          "EAS-ORG": [
            "WXR"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "title": "Current watches, warnings, and advisories for NYZ207",
  "updated": "2025-04-17T00:06:31+00:00"
}

[JJKraw]

Spot check this morning reveals that for Red Flag Warning and Fire Weather Watch, the fire zone URLs are used. For Special Weather Statements relating to fire risk, the forecast zones are used, but for the ones I checked, the forecast and fire zones overlap (same identifier), so you don't get a 404.

So possibly this is restricted only to alerts types like SPS that are not specifically fire related, and only when the affected zones are of type fire that do not overlap with the forecast zone.