Fatalities associated with wildfires 1980-2022, Oct. 2023

This metadata refers to a vector dataset that shows the number of fatalities caused by wildfires. The dataset covers the EEA-38 member countries over the period 1980-2022.

The dataset is part of the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT) accessible here: https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/observatory/evidence/health-effects/wildfires

The data is based on the damage records from CATDAT of RiskLayer under a contract and with 'non disclosure' provisions.

Sources: Based on the damage records from CATDAT of RiskLayer

Date (Creation): 2023-10-01

Date (Publication): 2023-10-13

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_v_3035_100_k_wildfire-fatalities_i_1980-2022_v01_r00

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Custodian

Point of contact

No information provided.

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Natural risk zones

Keywords

GEMET

natural risk

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

EEA38 (from 2020)

Spatial scope

European

EEA topics

Extreme weather

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: public access limited according to Article 13(1)(g) of the INSPIRE Directive

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The dataset has been provided to EEA by RiskLayer under a contract and with 'non disclore' provisions. Therefore, the dataset is protected by copyright and cannot be made public accessible.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language of dataset: English

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 1980-01-01

End date: 2022-12-31

Description: EEA38 (from 2020)

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

Geopackage ( )
GDB ( )

OnLine resource

No information provided.

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
ESRI:REST	https://climate.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/EUROGEO/Fatalities_associated_with_wildfire/MapServer

OnLine resource

No information provided.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The number of fatalities from individual wildfire events (recording all events that mentioned wildfires) were aggregated for calendar years for the EEA38 member countries.

The data is based on the damage records from CATDAT of RiskLayer GmBH ( https://www.risklayer.com/data.html)

Source