Hazard Areas of the Natural Risk Prevention Plan (PPRN) for Hastingues, Landes

Hazard zones for the French commune of Hastingues, representing areas exposed to one or more natural hazards as defined by the Risk Prevention Plan (PPRN). The dataset is a graduated zoning based on hazard intensity and probability, produced by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated in June 2023. Areas protected by structures are included as they are considered subject to hazard, while zones of no or insignificant hazard are excluded.

Use Cases

• Land-use planning and zoning based on hazard intensity and probability levels.
• Risk assessment modeling for natural disasters using the graduated hazard zoning.
• Validating or updating protective structure adequacy based on the inclusion of protected areas as hazard zones.

Strengths

• Data is based on a formal hazard study synthesizing multiple calculated, modeled, or observed hazard sources.
• Includes areas behind protective structures, accounting for potential structural failure.
• Last update was recorded on 2023-06-02, providing a specific recency date.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The specific hazards covered and their evaluation methods are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Synthesis of multiple sources of calculated, modeled, or observed hazard data for risk analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-06-02 00:00:00

Geography

Hastingues, Landes (40), France