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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This map shows hot days and waves and cold days and waves hazards in Europe.

European Spatial Planning Observation Network
Asia Pacific
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This map shows earthquake intensity zones in accordance with the 1956 version of the Modified Mercalli Scale (MMS)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
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This map illustrates China's exposure to seismic, volcanic and tropical storm hazard.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
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This map illustrates the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's exposure to seismic, volcanic and tropical storm hazard.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
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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.

European Spatial Planning Observation Network
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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).

European Spatial Planning Observation Network
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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.).

European Spatial Planning Observation Network
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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.

European Spatial Planning Observation Network

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