Windstorm hazard datasets#
Windstorms are amongst the most damaging natural hazards in Europe, with approximately 5 €billion of estimated annual losses in the EU. The number of reported windstorms significantly increased over the last decades, yet there is no consensus about a climate-induced trend in windstorms over Europe. Climate model projections of extreme wind are highly uncertain, also because the current generation of climate models still do not resolve spatial and temporal resolution issues. However, but they suggest that windstorms will not become more intense or happen more frequent with global warming over most of the European land, As a consequence, it is expected that risks from windstorms in the EU will not rise due to climate change.
This page contains datasets related to windstorm hazard. The source of this data DRMKC Risk Data Hub. The DRMKC Risk Data Hub is a multi-hazard Geo-portal designed to bridge science and policy across different scales, facilitating collaboration between scientists and end-users.
The dataset is available for Europe for 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500-year return periods. This map shows exposure layers representing Buildings and Built-up density retrieved from Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). The map also shows national boundaries (NUTS regions - level 0), but also regions of lower levels up to second level of NUTS regions.
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Use the map layer icon in the top-right corner of the map to select and compare different hazard map layers.