Country risk and governance profiles

Uncover the trends of disaster risk and learn more about country-level capacities to prevent disasters.

Understanding disaster risk is crucial for effectively preventing disasters. This page provides comprehensive and up-to-date risk profiles for countries around the world. The profiles offer in-depth information on risk for each country; they help identify and prioritize risk, guiding risk management.

Access detailed reports on each country's vulnerability, exposure, and resilience to various disasters, explore informative maps that visualize disaster risks, and understand key indicators and metrics used to assess disaster risk.

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Bangladesh: composite hazard map

This map illustrates Bangladesh' exposure to seismic, volcanic and tropical storm hazard.
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China: composite hazard map

This map illustrates China's exposure to seismic, volcanic and tropical storm hazard.
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea: composite hazard map

This map illustrates the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's exposure to seismic, volcanic and tropical storm hazard.
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Europe: avalanche hazard map

The map shows that the avalanche hazard is widespread among all European mountain regions famous for winter sport activities, without displaying a general local frequency or probability.
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Europe: storm surge hazard map

This map shows the approximate probability of having storm surges in any NUTS3 cluster. As storm surges are often closely linked to winter storms, the very high hazard area is mainly located in the areas where winter storms occur.
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Europe: storm hazard map

The map shows that the areas in Europe that are more exposed towards the northern Atlantic experience the highest threat of winter storms.
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Europe: earthquake hazard map

The map shows a classification of NUTS3 areas based on their average value of Peak Ground Acceleration (%), converting data from the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Project (GSHAP) into 5 hazard classes.
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Europe: wildfire hazard map

The map gives a good overview on the fire distribution on a specifically European level, using a combination of vegetation zones and observed forest fires (ATSR, 1997 to 2003).
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