Natural Accidents in Sweden with Point and Surface Data

Data on natural disasters occurring within Sweden's borders, available as point or surface objects. The dataset serves as a support and source of knowledge for authorities in preparatory and preventive security work or educational contexts. Documentation on underlying causes, events, handling, and lessons learned is available in a national database.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial distribution of natural disasters based on point and surface objects
• Support preventive security planning based on documented causes and lessons learned
• Educate communities about historical events in their vicinity based on available information
• Model the spread of individual events like rainfall or storms based on available SHP files

Strengths

• Data is available under a CC0-1.0 license, allowing unrestricted use
• Includes documentation on causes, events, handling, and lessons learned
• For some events, SHP files have been created over the spread of individual events

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Lantmäteriet

Geography

Sweden