newGeoSure Insurance Product: Natural Ground Movement Risk for Great Britain

The newGeoSure Insurance Product (newGIP) version 7 2017.3 provides a derived assessment of insurance risk from six natural ground movement hazards across Great Britain. It is produced by the British Geological Survey (BGS) using statistical analyses and expert elicitation, linked to a postcode database updated biannually. The data is intended for use at a 1:50,000 scale providing 50-meter ground resolution.

Use Cases

• Identifying property insurance risk based on combined geological hazard scores.
• Estimating susceptibility to landslides, shrink-swell clays, and other ground movements for specific postcodes.
• Spatial analysis of natural hazard risk for regional planning and underwriting purposes.

Strengths

• Covers six specific geological hazards: landslides, shrink-swell clays, soluble rocks, running sands, compressible ground, and collapsible deposits.
• Provides national coverage across Great Britain at a 1:50,000 scale with 50-meter resolution.
• Linked to a postcode database updated biannually with Ordnance Survey data.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset has been superseded, as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Hazards are evaluated using a series of processes including statistical analyses and expert elicitation techniques.

Time Range

Based on Ordnance Survey Code-Point® data version 2017.3.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:38:34.892465; freshness should be verified.

Geography

National coverage across Great Britain (not including the Isle of Man).