Heavy Rain Hazard Map for 100-Year, 60-Minute Events

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie provides a heavy rain hazard map representing an event statistically expected once every 100 years. The map marks areas with the expected water level in centimeters for a rain duration of 60 minutes. The dataset was last updated on 2026-02-17.

Use Cases

• Urban flood risk assessment based on expected water levels.
• Infrastructure planning for drainage systems based on 100-year return period events.
• Climate adaptation strategy development based on localized hazard mapping.
• Insurance risk modeling for property damage from extreme rainfall.

Strengths

• Map is based on a defined statistical return period of 100 years.
• Provides specific expected water level outputs in centimeters.
• Defines a specific rain duration parameter of 60 minutes.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Freshness

Last updated 2026-02-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.