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.

Documents and publications

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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Europe: landslide hazard map

This map gives an overview of the landslide hazard in the NUTS3 clusters but does not assess in any detail in which parts of the regions landslides occur nor the causes of landslides (e.g. geology, relief, construction, etc.).
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Europe: volcanic hazard map

The map displays regions with known volcanic activity eruptions during the last 10,000 years.
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Policies and plans

El Salvador: Civil protection, disasters prevention and mitigation law 2005

The Law aims to adopt mechanisms of prevention, mitigation and immediate response to natural and anthropogenic disasters (inclusive of climate change related disasters), designating a public service of civil protection to operate in these eventualities.
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Policies and plans

Disaster management policy framework for Saint Lucia

The Policy advances an approach to disaster management that focuses on reducing risks – the risk of loss of life, economic disruption and damage to the environment and property, especially to those sections of the population who are most vulnerable.
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Regional resources

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