Malaysia Risk Assessment Indicators for Flood Hazards at District Level

Seven indicator layers aggregated at Malaysia's admin level 2 (districts) support structured flood risk assessment. The data integrates open sources like WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine via HeiGIT's GAIA Pipeline. It was last updated on March 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Model flood risk exposure based on district-level flood exposure indicators.
• Assess demographic vulnerability based on age and gender composition data.
• Evaluate coping capacity by combining access to services and facility count data.
• Analyze rural population distribution for targeted disaster preparedness.
• Map accessibility to healthcare and education facilities using travel time and distance metrics.

Strengths

• Includes seven distinct indicator layers covering access, facilities, coping capacity, demographics, rural population, vulnerability, and flood exposure.
• Aggregated at a standardized administrative level (ADM2) using HDX COD-AB boundaries.
• Derived from established open data sources and processed via a documented pipeline (HeiGIT GAIA).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation for the rural_population and vulnerability layers is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-03-17 10:12:23.305917; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Derived from HeiGIT's GAIA Pipeline, integrating WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 10:12:23.305917.

Geography

Malaysia, aggregated at admin level 2 (districts).