Galveston Island Multi-Hazard Socio-Physical Datasets for Resilience Assessment

Amini et al. (2025) provides a companion dataset for an integrated decision-support framework for coastal community resilience. The data, hosted on Dataverse and linked to a GitHub repository, includes building inventories, hazard rasters, network shapefiles, and social vulnerability tables for Galveston Island, Texas. The dataset was last updated on April 20, 2026.

Use Cases

• Reproduce multi-hazard damage and loss assessments based on the provided building inventory and simulated storm fields.
• Conduct multi-objective mitigation optimization based on the pre-computed Pareto-optimal portfolio results.
• Analyze social equity impacts of hazards based on the tract-level vulnerability indicators and post-processing equity metrics.
• Model interdependent infrastructure recovery based on the electric power network and transportation connectivity outputs.

Strengths

• Dataset is explicitly linked to a companion GitHub code repository enabling full end-to-end reproduction of the analysis pipeline.
• Covers multiple interconnected systems including built environment, natural hazards, and social vulnerability specific to Galveston Island.
• Includes both input data and pre-computed outputs such as Monte-Carlo damage results and optimization portfolios.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file sizes are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is geographically specific to Galveston Island, Texas, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Amini, Kooshan; DesignSafe Data Depot Repository Harvested Subcollection.

Collection Method

Data appears to be compiled from sources such as building inventories, ADCIRC+SWAN simulations, FEMA rasters, LiDAR, and Census data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 14:52:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Galveston Island, Texas, along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.