Aquitaine Flood Risk Municipalities for European Directive Reporting

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES produced this dataset of municipalities used to calculate human and job-related stakes in flood scenarios. It supports reporting for the European Flood Directive (2007/60/EC) and the creation of flood hazard and risk maps. The dataset was last updated on 2019-03-29.

Use Cases

• Calculate population exposure to flood hazards based on municipality-level data.
• Assess economic impact by estimating the number of jobs at risk in flood scenarios.
• Generate standardized flood risk maps for compliance with European Directive 2007/60/EC.
• Support vulnerability assessments for territories across high, medium, and low probability flood levels.

Strengths

• Produced for a specific legal framework (European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC), suggesting a standardized methodology.
• Designed to contribute to official Flood Risk Management Plans (PGRIs), indicating an applied, regulatory purpose.
• Aims to homogenize and objectify knowledge of flood exposure across territories.

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-03-29; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Likely compiled for reporting and mapping purposes under the European Flood Directive.

Freshness

2019-03-29

Geography

Aquitaine region, France, specifically the sorting of Perigueux.