Kenya - GLIDE Disaster Events: Geospatial Disaster Records with Unique IDs

GLIDE numbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, proposed by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) to address scattered and confusing disaster information. The dataset contains records for disaster events in Kenya, allowing information to be interoperable across multiple sources. It is provided by the GLIDE Initiative and was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Track and link disaster events across different reporting systems based on the GLIDE unique identifier.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of disasters in Kenya based on the geospatial data format.
• Integrate disaster information from multiple institutional sources like UN-OCHA and IFRC using the common identifier.

Strengths

• Implements a globally common Unique ID code for disasters, facilitating data interoperability.
• Actively used by major institutions including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, IFRC, and the European Commission.
• Available in multiple formats including GEOJSON and CSV, supporting different analysis workflows.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Disasters are registered in a record that contains a GLIDEnumber; likely aggregated from multiple disaster information sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:53:51.300361; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kenya