France - GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Records

GLIDE numbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, proposed by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center to unify disaster information across sources. The dataset likely contains records of disaster events in France, registered with interoperable identifiers used by organizations like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC. It was last updated on 2026-06-23 and is provided by the GLIDE Initiative.

Use Cases

• Track disaster occurrence and impacts in France based on the geospatial event records.
• Cross-reference disaster information from multiple international sources based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Analyze temporal and geographic patterns of disasters in France based on the event registration data.

Strengths

• Provides a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDE number) for each disaster event.
• Adopted by major international organizations including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in multiple formats including GEOJSON and CSV.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registration of disaster events with unique identifiers for interoperability.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:52:38.704735; freshness should be verified.

Geography

France