Myanmar Risk Assessment Indicators for Flood and Cyclone Hazards at Admin Level 2

Myanmar district-level (admin 2) risk indicators for flood and cyclone hazards, produced by HeiGIT using the GAIA Pipeline. The dataset integrates demographic, infrastructure, and environmental data from WorldPop and OpenStreetMap as of March 2026. It provides standardized metrics for disaster resilience and vulnerability analysis across all districts.

Use Cases

• Evaluating healthcare resilience by analyzing population within 30 minutes of hospitals via access_pop_hospitals_30min
• Identifying districts with high concentrations of vulnerable populations using children_u5 and elderly columns
• Assessing infrastructure capacity for emergency shelters using education_count and hospitals_count

Strengths

• Aggregated at the granular admin level 2 for localized disaster planning
• Includes specific travel-time accessibility metrics like access_pop_hospitals_30min derived from openrouteservice
• Integrates multi-source data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine into a single framework

Limitations

• Data quality is contingent on the completeness of OpenStreetMap, which may be lower in remote rural areas
• Admin level 2 aggregation may obscure hyper-local variations in hazard exposure within a district
• Coping capacity indicators are derived from secondary aggregations rather than primary household surveys

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Aggregated via the GAIA Pipeline using open data sources including WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; update frequency is not specified.

Geography

Myanmar