Kyrgyzstan GLIDE Disaster Events

GLIDEnumbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, proposed by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center to address confusion in identifying events across borders. The dataset contains disaster records for Kyrgyzstan, interoperable across sources like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC. It is provided by the GLIDE Initiative and was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Link disaster impact data across agencies based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Map disaster events geographically based on the provided GEOJSON format.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in Kyrgyzstan based on the event registry.

Strengths

• Adopts a globally recognized identifier system used by UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats for different analytical needs.
• Last updated on 2026-06-23, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the HDX platform's Kyrgyzstan focus.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23.

Geography

Kyrgyzstan