Their streets. Your receipts.
What is this?
KC Streets lets you search Kansas City's own 311 data to see the pothole reports filed near any address since early 2021 – what was reported, when it was reported, and whether the city actually bothered to fix it. Type in your street or just move the map, and you 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, submit the City's Claim for Damages form or write to the Law Department — Claims Unit, 23rd Floor, City Hall, 414 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, MO 64106. You'll want your repair receipts, photos of the damage and the pothole, and the date and location of the incident. Missouri law generally requires written notice within 90 days, so don't wait.
How to use the site
Pothole Lookup – Search any Kansas City address, use your current location, or drag the map anywhere in the city. You'll see the pothole reports in the area you're looking at (up to 1,000 at a time), color-coded by status. You can filter by status, by how the report was filed, and by date, and there's a sortable table of results below. Move or zoom the map and the results update for the new area.
Ticket details – Click any ticket number to see the full report, including the details the person reporting it gave and other reports nearby.
Claim letter builder – If a pothole damaged your car, fill in a short form and get a letter ready to send to the city's Claims Unit, along with a countdown to the 90-day notice deadline.
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.
Analytics – Charts of pothole reporting over time: reports per year, how long repairs take, how people file reports, seasonal trends, and the most-reported addresses.
Guides
Plain-language explainers written for Kansas City drivers and residents:
- How to report a pothole in Kansas City: the myKCMO app, 311 by phone, and when to call MoDOT instead.
- Who fixes which road in Kansas City: city, state, county, or a neighboring city, and how to tell which one you're on.
- How long Kansas City takes to fix a pothole: repair times, worked out from the city's own 311 data.
- Why Kansas City gets so many potholes: freeze-thaw cycles, pothole season, and why patches fail.
- Kansas City's 2026 pothole season by the numbers: this year's reports, repair times, and hot spots, compared with 2024 and 2025.
- Potholes by council district: report volume, cancellations, and repair times across the six districts.
- Patching vs. repaving: how the city decides which streets get resurfaced, and how street work is paid for.
- What a pothole can do to your car: the damage to look for, and how to document it.
- How to file a pothole damage claim: the 90-day notice rule, the evidence that matters, and where to send it.
- Understanding Kansas City's 311 data: what the statuses and day counts actually measure.
Where the data comes from
The map, ticket pages, Hall of Fame, and analytics are pulled live from KCMO's public 311 dataset through their open data portal; the guides use snapshots of the same data, dated on each page. Nothing is scraped or altered. 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.